What is the best file encryption for linux?

[Marcelo Cavalcante]

As Mike said, the best is to encrypt the whole disk, but if this is nt what
you want, and you really wanna play only with specific files, I would
suggest you to take a look at GNUPG.

http://www.gnupg.org/

It's the GNU's implementation of OpenPGP.

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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Mike Kallies <mike.kallies-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> On 12-07-18 11:19 AM, Walter Dnes wrote:
> >   I plan do some travelling and take along my netbook or laptop, I want
> > to be able to download+send email.  Web UI sucks.  I vastly prefer
> > downloading via "getmail".  The problem is that getmail's rc files have
> > userid+password in plain text for each account.  The risks of losing the
> > netbook/laptop are obvious.
>
> Whole Disk Encryption is the best.  Truecrypt, dm-crypt, etc.
>
> Your drive's HDD password may provide encryption too.  Check the
> manufacturer specs.  Hitachi drives normally have encryption built-in.
> A few other manufacturers do too.
>
> http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/bulk_faqs.htm
>
> It's black-box encryption though.  To the paranoid, it only makes the
> disk less valuable than the replacement cost.
>
> Even if the drive doesn't have built-in encryption, the HDD password
> alone might be all you need.  It's not easy to circumvent, but it can be
> circumvented.
>
> The advantage of these passwords is that they're quick, easy and don't
> degrade performance.  Not as secure as whole-disk encryption though.
>
> -Mike
>
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