[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] private files

2005-12-20 Thread reader
Rumen Yotov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > What i'm using is a separate encrypted partition made with loop-eas. > Just copy the key-file open the partition erase key-file first, do backup > or refresh it then close. Could also be a file but there were some drawbacks. > If anybody hacks this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] private files

2005-12-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 18:58:57 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Am I right in thinking kwallet requires kde to be running? It does. > If I were to simply create *.tar.gz or rar archive and then gnupgp > encrypt that file, deleting source would that be problematic? It would work. > I can see i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] private files

2005-12-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 09:00:06 +, Stuart Howard wrote: > I use kgpg which [I presume] is part of the kwallet system. kgpg and kwallet are separate packages. kgpg is a gpg front-end, kwallet provides automatic, secure storage of passwords as was as general data. -- Neil Bothwick The computer

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] private files

2005-12-20 Thread Stuart Howard
I use kgpg which [I presume] is part of the kwallet system. So on desktop you have handy gui access and remotely because it is based on gnupg you can use text only access over shh for example :- gpg --decrypt -o ./securepass.tar.gz.gpg ./foo.tar.gz hope this helps stu ps. In extracting the file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] private files

2005-12-19 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, On (19/12/05 18:58), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you use KDE, KWallet can be used to store random information as well > > as web site passwords etc. > > Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The KDE Wallet system is pretty much ideal

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] private files

2005-12-19 Thread reader
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you use KDE, KWallet can be used to store random information as well > as web site passwords etc. Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The KDE Wallet system is pretty much ideally suited to storing this > kind of data. I wondered what that th