[waffl]

This is an incredibly frustrating thing with the way OS X handles encrypted disk images as well. Needing to share confidential documents with coworkers, we were hoping to store them in an encrypted disk image. (GPG proved way too complex for anyone to adopt) Of course, the standard OS X GUI prevents you from pasting a password when mounting, which of course led to coworkers resorting to short, easy to type, easy to remember (and easy to crack) passwords.

The best solution I found was to mount via the command line but that definitely wasn't an option for any coworker unfamiliar with the terminal.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/42257/how-can-i-mo...

Also while this may be ultra paranoid, I really don't like typing passwords in public places where endless he cameras can record my screen and keystrokes.

[joantune]

Yes!! Ditto on the weirdness of not allowing to paste from the clipboard to decrypt a hard drive on OS X.

It's like it's on purpose to make you save the password on the keychain or to make it more predictable somehow. I think that's either a very bad decision or evidence of NSA/CIA infiltration/influencing of Apple's software