"Tim Golden" <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote
encrypted text file? I want to store passwords and associated contact
information in a file and feel confident that if the file is stolen
the information couldn't be read.
If you're on Windows, just encrypt the file under Explorer.
Although that's not very secure: if you copy it to a non NTFS
filesystem since Windows will, by default, helpfully unencrypt
it for you...
There is some stuff on MSDN that tells how to make Windows
encryption work sensibly but the defaults make it kind of pointless.
(Actually, I haven't tried this on XP, but certainly on Win2000
the default encryption was a joke. If anyone can confirm that XP
fixes it I might start using it again.)
Alan G.
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