On 19-1-2014 7:50, Mr. Clif wrote: > Does anyone use symmetric file encryption?
Yes, but only for encrypting files for personal use. Not in communication with others. > What is the best practice here? As always, that depends on your use case and threat model. > I heard of another solution which was to mount an encrypted > directory with fuser to drop files into. Possible, I use TrueCryot containers for that but that's similar (although more portable and usable on "that other OS"). > I think I would wounder how > safe the passphrase was for mounted filesystems, Are you asking how long it would take to brute-force the pasword, how difficult it is to snoop it or if there are known vulnarabilities in the symmetric encryption used by gnupg, fuser or others? > though I know of some techniques for protecting them. Remember the weakest link in all encryption: https://xkcd.com/538/ -- ir. J.C.A. Wevers PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users