Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-13 Thread John Crawley
On 13/01/2019 12.46, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:45:57 + I believe that the most commonly used software for file level encryption is EncFS. I haven't really used it much, and can't speak to its long term stablity. EncFS should not be used for any new file encryption project,

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-12 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:45:57 + Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:18:47PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > >The standard encryption technology for linux is LUKS. It works on the > >block device level, not the file level. > > LUKS would be no good if the user wants to

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-11 Thread Stefan Pietsch
On 11.01.19 22:45, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > EncFS should not be used for any new file encryption project, IMHO. > There was the following report in 2014: > https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm > This is referenced in the NEWS file in the EncFS package >

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-11 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:18:47PM -0500, Celejar wrote: The standard encryption technology for linux is LUKS. It works on the block device level, not the file level. LUKS would be no good if the user wants to move/copy/share the encrypted files, encrypted, elsewhere: they didn't say so

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-09 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 10/01/2019 03:05, Kynn Jones wrote: The only encryption tool I have used for encrypting files on my hard drive is gpg2, which I have used for small, interactive encryption tasks (half-dozen files, at most). Therefore, my initial attempt was to use gpg2 for this new bulk-encryption task, but I

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-09 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 9 Jan 2019 09:05:32 -0500 Kynn Jones wrote: > I am looking for software to symmetric-encrypt large numbers of files on > disk (terabytes' worth of data), and would appreciate some advice. > > My basic requirements: > >- It should be open source and no-cost (though, since I'm asking

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-09 Thread Linux-Fan
Kynn Jones writes: I am looking for software to symmetric-encrypt large numbers of files on disk (terabytes' worth of data), and would appreciate some advice. My basic requirements: • It should be open source and no-cost (though, since I'm asking this question here, this goes without

Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-09 Thread David Christensen
On 1/9/19 6:05 AM, Kynn Jones wrote: I am looking for software to symmetric-encrypt large numbers of files on disk (terabytes' worth of data), and would appreciate some advice. My basic requirements: - It should be open source and no-cost (though, since I'm asking this question here,

Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

2019-01-09 Thread Kynn Jones
I am looking for software to symmetric-encrypt large numbers of files on disk (terabytes' worth of data), and would appreciate some advice. My basic requirements: - It should be open source and no-cost (though, since I'm asking this question here, this goes without saying); - I should