Re: [cryptography] Question About Best Practices for Personal File Encryption

2014-08-16 Thread Jonas Wielicki
On linux, for full disk encryption, LUKS might be a good choice. Most distributions nowadays offer a way to turn on full disk encryption when installing (minus the /boot partition). For single files I use GnuPG. regards, Jonas On 16.08.2014 06:05, Mark Thomas wrote: I have a question for the

Re: [cryptography] Question About Best Practices for Personal File Encryption

2014-08-16 Thread Christopher Nielsen
On Aug 15, 2014 11:06 PM, Mark Thomas mark00tho...@gmail.com wrote: I have a question for the group, if I may ask it here and in this manner (?). What are you guys using to encrypt individual files and folders or even entire drives like a USB? I am thinking that: 1. any commercial product

Re: [cryptography] Question About Best Practices for Personal File Encryption

2014-08-16 Thread David I. Emery
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 04:21:53PM -0500, Christopher Nielsen wrote: The comment about Apple is simply false. Apple does not have a key to FileVault2 unless you escrow your key with them. I know this because a dear friend recently passed, and his family was not able to gain access to his

Re: [cryptography] Question About Best Practices for Personal File Encryption

2014-08-16 Thread Greg Rose
On Aug 16, 2014, at 14:21 , Christopher Nielsen m4dh4t...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 15, 2014 11:06 PM, Mark Thomas mark00tho...@gmail.com wrote: I have a question for the group, if I may ask it here and in this manner (?). What are you guys using to encrypt individual files and folders

Re: [cryptography] Question About Best Practices for Personal File Encryption

2014-08-16 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Christopher Nielsen m4dh4t...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 15, 2014 11:06 PM, Mark Thomas mark00tho...@gmail.com wrote: I have a question for the group, if I may ask it here and in this manner (?). What are you guys using to encrypt individual files and folders or

Re: [cryptography] Question About Best Practices for Personal File Encryption

2014-08-16 Thread Mark Thomas
We all know that a request from grieving family members or from the United States Government are answered in ways that the should only be justified for the other party (i.e.. saying “no to the USG and “yes to the family). Never the less, I pose the original question again, without the Apple

Re: [cryptography] Question About Best Practices for Personal File Encryption

2014-08-16 Thread stef
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 06:26:28PM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: Am I on the right track? If so does anyone know of a helpful guide to get started with OpenSSL on the command line besides the man pages? last time i checked openssl does no authenticated encryption on the command line. -- otr fp:

Re: [cryptography] Question About Best Practices for Personal File Encryption

2014-08-16 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On 2014-08-16, at 4:51 PM, David I. Emery d...@dieconsulting.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 04:21:53PM -0500, Christopher Nielsen wrote: The comment about Apple is simply false. Apple does not have a key to FileVault2 unless you escrow your key with them. I know this because a dear friend