(question) Encrypting a single file

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 02:06:11PM -0400, William Park wrote:
>Hi, I'm currently keeping all personal infos (ie. contacts, accounts,
>passwords, pins, etc.) on paper address book.  I would like to store
>them on a single textfile.  How do you encrypt/decrypt a single file?
>
>I used "cryptsetup" before, but that's for entire partition.  I guess I
>can use password option in "zip", but that's so old fashion. :-)

I'd use gpg [1].  It is relatively simple, robust, and secure.  You
could then distribute your file as widely as you care to - put it up on
dropbox, Google docs, etc.  The only thing you need to keep safe is your
key.

[1] http://www.gnupg.org/documentation/howtos.en.html
-- 

yours,

William

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 190 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/legacy/attachments/20110318/ef43bbcd/attachment.sig>