On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not looking for the industrial strenght solution of gpg with keys for
myself and all the people i'll be exchanging messages with; just a
simple tool
like crypt of old days that i can use to encypt a text file. i don't
need to
sign the file as no one else will be getting it.
as an added bonus, the tool should be able to remember my key (in some
suitably encrypted fashion) and allow me to encrypt files without
asking me
for my key, but will certainly require my key to un-encrypt.
only command line tools need apply :-)
any suggestions?
And can you explain again why gpg is not good enough?
<plug>You can use rsyncrypto (http://sf.net/projects/rsyncrypto), but it
slightly weakens the encryption to gain rsync friendliness, which you do
not need, so I guess it's not an excellent option for you. On the plus
side, it has modes designed exactly for what you want to do</plug>
Also, I'm fairly sure that a combination of find and openssl can achieve
what you are looking for quite easilly.
Shachar
i installed and started playing with gpg, but it seems like tool that does
much more than i need, and requires that i set up all that stuff even if i
don't need it. while i'm not afraid of substantial setups (i use gentoo after
all), i don't like putting all that time into a tool that does much more than
i need, if a simpler too exists.
it might turn out that gpg is the best tool after all, in which case i welcome
the opportunity to learn all about it.
i will take a look at rsyncrypto and openssl. it never occurred to me that
openssl could do this - i had only thought of it in conjunction with some sort
of transfer mechanism like ssh
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