On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 02:30:22PM -0600, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > Also remember that OpenPGP is a wire protocol. The protocol is not > meant for mass storage. Sure, you can use GnuPG to encrypt files, but > once you start dealing with large numbers of them you're generally going > to be better off using a system that's purpose-built for the task. > Like, say, an encrypted filesystem.
I must disagree with this. OpenPGP is not solely a wire protocol. There are even parts of the specification that were added mainly for the benefit of mass storage. It's being used in storage in a number of places today. The nice thing about using OpenPGP as an archival primitive is that each encrypted file is its own file and decrypting one does not impact any others. This works well in the context of email, where each mail is its own object. David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users