On 2014-12-10 13:41, Wesley Peterson wrote:
My quest for information is probably more along the line of:
1. "Have any of you used AESCrypt in a cross platform environment?"
Not yet; doing a quick search for a Debian package for AEScrypt shows
that someone filed an ITP ("Intent To Package") for AEScrypt three
years ago but the ITP is open and without an owner, which means the
package hasn't been created yet.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=609505
If I get a chance I may poke at this.
2. "Do any of you know of any faults in AES Encryption/Decryption that
would
make it insecure for Financial information"
AES is one of the standard algorithms used for LUKS encryption
in Linux distributions
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption#Ciphers_and_modes_of_operation
but there's also an "initialization vector" algorithm that is used
in conjunction with it (e.g. xts-plain64), and with AEScrypt I
haven't yet seen what initialization vector algorithm is used or if
there are options for setting that.
How did you install AEScrypt on Mint? Build from source?
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?"
So far I've only been using sshfs with encrypted storage; i.e. LUKS
encryption on the storage end, and encrypted transfers via ssh.
Last I heard DropBox supposedly has options for encryption, but I
don't use DropBox (I think I'd rather use OwnCloud).
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 Ive 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. Hes close to 100 miles away so its
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.
The two options for LUGs I currently know of are NYLUG in NYC -- they
met at Bloomberg last I checked -- and LILUG who meet in Woodbury at
Cold Spring Harbor Labs. [CSHL has several campuses -- this one is
just off of the highway on Sunnyside Blvd, .] It looks to be about a
40 minute trip to either LUG from Valley Stream.
--
Chris Knadle
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