(question) Encrypting a single file

[William Park]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 04:20:32PM -0400, ttanski-iRg7kjdsKiH3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2011, 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. :-)
> 
> Have a look at KeePassX (http://www.keepassx.org/)

Thanks.  Another layer of "database" is too much for my need.  However,
KeePass would be useful for "salespeople" as was discussed in recent
TLUG meeting, where sheer volume of contact list requires more than just
textfile, but don't want coworkers using that list.
-- 
William
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