On 04/23/2017 05:13 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 5:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm looking for a solution to encrypt and attachment to Windows users. >> gpg does not support "sda" Self Decrypting Archives. >> >> Occasionally I have to send an attachment via email and would prefer if >> the file was encrypted. Asking Windows users to use PGP is almost >> impossible. >> Sending them txt.exe and asking the to run it will not go well. >> >> -- >> Thelma >> > > 7zip can create AES256 encrypted archives, and the majority of Windows > "power users" will have it installed already. > > Unfortunately if you want asymmetric encryption there is not much else > besides GnuPG. Gpg4Win offers a GUI and might be more friendly. There > is also the Enigmail plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird. > > As strange as this might sound, you should also consider telling your > recipient to install Cygwin and GnuPG, as often times (at least in my > experience) the main problem with using GPG on Windows is buggy > wrapper layers. If it is used directly there are next to no issues. > Should your recipients be at all inclined the necessary commands can > be remembered easily and don't need much modification.
Thanks, yes p7zip worked OK. 7za a myfile.zip Customer_152149.pdf IMG_0125.JPG -tzip -mem=AES256 -mx9 -p123 extracting: 7z e myfile.zip -- Thelma
