(question) Encrypting a single file

[Christopher Browne]

On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 4:20 PM,  <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/)

Agreed.  I'm using KeePassX to manage my "bounty" of passwords, and am
pleased that it runs on a sufficiently wide variety of platforms.  I
happen to care about Linux, Android, and (a little) MacOS-X.
Links to the various ports may be found here:
<http://keepass.info/download.html>

What is regrettable is that there's not a totally viable CLI option
(see discussion <http://www.keepassx.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44>),
although a Python-based thing does exist
(<https://github.com/brettviren/python-keepass> - I haven't gotten it
to work, which may be my fault).

Another option is Password Safe, which was originally produced by
Bruce Schneier (known as developer of such ciphers as Blowfish,
Twofish).
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/

I used to use Password Gorilla (which is a version with a Tcl/Tk front
end).  I liked the fact that CLI version was readily available.  I
couldn't find anything suitable on Android, so migrated to KeePass.

These are likely to be more suitable for unsophisticated users than GPG.
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