On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted : > one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a spreadsheet ( .ods ). > > I haven't used encryption like this before : what do others use ?
I have used `gpg' to do this before: # Encrypt with a passphrase gpg -c <file> # Decrypt gpg -d <file>.gpg I do have some files I keep encrypted locally that I use `gpg' to encrypt/decrypt, but with my personal key pair. For that, I use a vim plugin[1] that transparently decrypts to `/tmp', lets me edit, and then saves back to the original file. This prevents the decrypted contents from ever being on my hard drive, as I have `/tmp' mounted as tmpfs. Hope this helps, Alec