My quest for information is probably more along the line of:
1. "Have any of you used AESCrypt in a cross platform environment?"
2. "Do any of you know of any faults in AES Encryption/Decryption that
would make it insecure for Financial information"
3. "Have any of you worked with any Encryption/Decryption utilities in a
cross platform environment that you feel might be a good fit for a user who
needs to work primarily in a Windows and MAC environment but will be
{slowly} migrating to Linux as his comfort level increases?"I would think that a utility that could be utilized via File Manager scripting (similar to the great interface Jacksum provides) would be ideal for him. So far I've only tried the AESCrypt on my Linux Mint environment (all tries done last night and this morning) and it looks reasonable to me, but I want to try a bit more. I FINALLY got my friend to try Linux after I drove down to Valley Stream last summer and met him for lunch. He's close to 100 miles away so it's very unlikely he could attend our meetings and bounce ideas around in person, though there might be some user group support for him in his area. On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Mark Wallace <[email protected]> wrote: > And I have learned that when you try to tell them that their XP desktops > are very vulnerable because Microsoft no longer supports XP and it won't be > long until the anti-virus people stop supporting it too, that they just > kind of go blank. > > I've got Ubuntu Mate on my laptop configured to look just like XP to show > them that you can get around the learning curve but that doesn't help > either. > > I had Windows 7 in it for a while but thought that installing software > was an absolute jungle. Almost every free download wanted to change some > setting or install a toolbar. > > Mark > > On 12/10/2014 01:15 PM, Wesley Peterson wrote: > > My friend is looking to put some "financial" records up on Dropbox in a > way that they can't be compromised. He acts as a pseudo-admin for a local > church and, though he hasn't said so, it's possible some of these records > may be for them. I know in the past he has had to deal with a combination > of MAC / Windows environments for his administration, so I felt this was an > un-stated requirement, which the AESCrypt web site seems to cover. He has > barely tinkered with Linux so far, and I doubt he could convince the church > (if they are in fact a part of this issue) to change operating systems. > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:09 PM, <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:44:28 -0500 >> "Wesley Peterson - [email protected]" >> <mhvlug2.trace.02036bc4e0.wesley.d.peterson#[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > A former co-worker of mine who uses Windoze, Mac, and is starting to >> > use Linux, asked me what I thought of https://www.aescrypt.com/ . >> >> What's your co-worker goal? If it's just encrypting his /home dir, then >> use the LUKS-based encryption (it's out of the box with Ubuntu). If >> it's encrypting files to share them cross-platform, that's a much more >> complex question. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org >> https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug >> >> Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * >> Jan 7 - When Will Then Be Now? Soon. >> Feb 4 - Blender: The Open Source Graphics Program >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group > http://mhvlug.orghttps://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > Jan 7 - When Will Then Be Now? Soon. > Feb 4 - Blender: The Open Source Graphics Program > > > -- > Mark and Christine Wallace > 60 Delaware Road > Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 > Telephone: 1-845-787-2364 > > Proudly sent with Ubuntu Mate 14, > a free replacement operating system for Windows XP computers. > Free support until 2019, it's virus free > and it boots faster.https://ubuntu-mate.org/about/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * > Jan 7 - When Will Then Be Now? Soon. > Feb 4 - Blender: The Open Source Graphics Program > >
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