Re: Encrypt a file
>>>>> "Francois" == Francois Fayard <fayard@ens.fr> writes:
Francois> Hi, Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files
Francois> with a password ?
You seem to be asking specifically for symmetric encryption here (you
use the same key to encrypt and decrypt), as opposed to asymmetric
encryption (where you use a public to encrypt and a private key to
decrypt).
PGP could encrypt with both methods (not sure if this is still the
case), however as far as I can tell, GnuPG can only encrypt with
asymmetric keys (I might be mistaken).
While there are pros and cons in both methods, I have to wonder what
you need to encrypt files for. For most applications, asymmetric
encryption is better.
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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