On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 07:27:35AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 180703 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks, that's very helpful except that you forgot to append [1] (smile).
Ouch. I meant to link to https://github.com/jamessan/vim-gnupg. > I don't need to encrypt the files locally, > but do need to when I create copies to up-load as off-site back-ups. Someone else mentioned duplicity, which I've used in the past. It's built to do encrypted backups to S3/Dropbox/scp. Alec
