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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.
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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