that's perfect - just what i needed. even does nice things like turning off echo to screen when entering password.
thank! On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Rony Shapiro wrote:
Hi Michael, gpg can also be used for "conventionally" encrypting/decrypting a file based on a password/passphrase, e.g.: $ gpg -c foo.txt Enter passphrase: Repeat passphrase: $ ls foo* foo.txt foo.txt.gpg [...] $ gpg foo.txt.gpg gpg: CAST5 encrypted data Enter passphrase: gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase gpg: WARNING: message was not integrity protected $ Probably the easiest way to encrypt/decrypt files via a command line. Cheers, Rony-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:39 PM To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files? I'm not looking for the industrial strenght solution of gpg with keys for myself and all the people i'll be exchanging messages with; just a simple tool like crypt of old days that i can use to encypt a text file. i don't need to sign the file as no one else will be getting it. as an added bonus, the tool should be able to remember my key (in some suitably encrypted fashion) and allow me to encrypt files without asking me for my key, but will certainly require my key to un-encrypt. only command line tools need apply :-) any suggestions? shanna tova, michael ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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