Re: Encrypt a file

[Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de>]

Francois Fayard <fayard@ens.fr> writes:

> Does anyone knows a software that encrypts files with a password ?

Have a look at seahorse:

~$ apt-cache show seahorse      
Package: seahorse
Version: 0.4.9-1
Priority: optional
Section: non-US
Maintainer: Christian Marillat <marillat@debian.org>
Depends: gdk-imlib1 (>= 1.9.8-4), libart2 (>= 1.2.4-1), libaudiofile0, libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libdb2 (>= 1:2.4.14-7), libesd0 (>= 0.2.16) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.16), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (>= 1.2.4-1), libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.4-1), libgnomeui32 (>= 1.2.4-1), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.8-1), libz1, xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4), gnupg (>= 1.0.0-1)
Architecture: i386
Filename: dists/unstable/non-US/main/binary-i386/seahorse_0.4.9-1.deb
Size: 89656
MD5sum: 0b761fa6b1dbf373b88127fa47c63117
Description: A Gnome front end for GnuPG
 Seahorse is a Gnome front end for GnuPG - the Gnu Privacy Guard
 program. It is a tool for secure communications and data storage.
 Data encryption and digital signature creation can easily be
 performed through a GUI and Key Management operations can easily
 be carried out through an intuitive interface.
installed-size: 271

Greetings,
joachim