On Jan 8, 11:14 am, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I have a plain text file which I would like to protect in a very > simple minded, yet for my purposes sufficient, way. I'd like to > encrypt/convert it into a binary file in such a way that possession of > a password allows anyone to convert it back into the original text > file while not possessing the password one would only see the > following with the standard linux utility 'file': > > [fetchin...@fetch ~]$ file encrypted.data > encrypted.data: data > > and the effort required to convert the file back to the original text > file without the password would be equivalent to guessing the > password.
gpg -c simpletextfile.txt -o simpletextfile.gpg But I guess you can't depend on users to have gpg installed so you have to roll out some unvetted Python tool. Carl Banks -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
