On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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 tool exists.
Your requirement that encryption be easy but decryption require a key
implies public key cryptography. I don't think gpg will be that much
harder to set up than the alternatives.
good point. i wasn't very precise. i blurred the distinction between password
and key.
i don't require keys at all. all i want is a program that encrypts my files,
and un-encrypts them only when i give my secret password. i'd rather not have
keys, because then i can't decrypt on a different machine, without copying
over the keys as well. perhaps this isn't possible - perhaps all good
encryption programs require keys to do good encryption.
what is the formal distinction between a password and a key?
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