Re: Core files on Debian Trixie

Thomas Pircher wrote: I wanted to ask what the recommended way is nowadays to disable corefiles globally. The latest update for systemd has answered this: | apt-listchanges: News | - | | systemd (256~rc3-3) unstable; urgency=medium | | - coredumps are now disabled by

[SOLVED] Re: config files - newline possible?

Hi Greg, ah, I wasn't aware of this. This is really great news! And it will help me much. You made my day! Thank you very much. Best regards Hans > On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 08:42:20PM +0200, Hans wrote: > > in my case it is the config freom from bootcdwrite, which is > > bootcdwrite.conf. >

Re: config files - newline possible?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 08:42:20PM +0200, Hans wrote: > in my case it is the config freom from bootcdwrite, which is bootcdwrite.conf. says: This file will be sourced as shell file. So, you may use any valid "shell"

Re: config files - newline possible?

Hi Tomas, in my case it is the config freom from bootcdwrite, which is bootcdwrite.conf. The parm is NOT_TO_CD and as there are many and partly long pathnames, the line has increased rather long. So I want to shorten it. But as it was said: there is no general way for this. So I just try some

Re: config files - newline possible?

On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 05:56:05PM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > O know in shell scripts it is possible, to seperate a looong line of commands > into several short lines. > > But can this be done in config-files, too? > > I have a files with the syntax like this: > >

Re: config files - newline possible?

Hans (12024-04-11): > But can this be done in config-files, too? Depends entirely on the software reading the config file. Some will use \, some will use something else, some will offer no solution. Regards, -- Nicolas George

Re: unzip files bigger than 4 GB

Nvm, confused 2G with 4G. Sorry for the noise. On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:21 PM Mike Castle wrote: > > It seems like it should. I haven't upgraded my system yet: > > $ unzip -v | grep -e 6 -e LARGE > UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. > USE_DEFLATE64 (PKZIP

Re: unzip files bigger than 4 GB

It seems like it should. I haven't upgraded my system yet: $ unzip -v | grep -e 6 -e LARGE UnZip 6.00 of 20 April 2009, by Debian. Original by Info-ZIP. USE_DEFLATE64 (PKZIP 4.x Deflate64(tm) supported) LARGE_FILE_SUPPORT (large files over 2 GiB supported) ZIP64_SUPPORT

Re: unzip files bigger than 4 GB

On 14.06.2023 23:19, Van Snyder wrote: unzip v 6.0 (the version delivered with Debian 10) doesn't work with files bigger than 2^32 bytes. Is there an alternative program to do it? "7zip" is the best. It supports multiple formats and cross-platform. -- With kindest regards, Alexander.

Re: archive files

On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 12:07:09AM -0700, David Christensen wrote: How does cpio(1) compare? How about dump(8) and restore(8)? I'd note that these (like tar) are both very old tools, and there are many more modern ones perhaps worthy of consideration too. (which; is left as an exercise for the

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

On 12/2/20 6:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote: > LINUX-LINUX or it is better to use SAMBA for everything_  - maybe , it's practical to run windows as a Virtual Machine ? .  regards

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

Kenneth Parker writes: On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 9:10 AM Anssi Saari a...@sci.fi> wrote: Kanito 73 kanit...@hotmail.com> writes: > At first I thought to use both SAMBA for LINUX-WINDOWS and maybe NFS for LINUX-LINUX but I used NFS long

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Ma, 01 dec 20, 08:11:01, Robert Tonkavich wrote: > I am very sorry for my Input. What is there to be sorry about? Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, 9:10 AM Anssi Saari wrote: > Kanito 73 writes: > > > At first I thought to use both SAMBA for LINUX-WINDOWS and maybe NFS for > LINUX-LINUX but I used NFS long time > > ago and it was slow as a turtle. Is there another networking service > available that runs faster only

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

Kanito 73 writes: > At first I thought to use both SAMBA for LINUX-WINDOWS and maybe NFS for > LINUX-LINUX but I used NFS long time > ago and it was slow as a turtle. Is there another networking service > available that runs faster only for > LINUX-LINUX or it is better to use SAMBA for

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

I am very sorry for my Input. On Tue, Dec 1, 2020 at 12:28 AM David Wright wrote: > On Mon 30 Nov 2020 at 18:25:00 (-0600), John Hasler wrote: > > Stefan writes: > > > Is there leap-second information in the zoneinfo files? > > > > No, but that is where is should be. > > It appears to be

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon 30 Nov 2020 at 18:25:00 (-0600), John Hasler wrote: > Stefan writes: > > Is there leap-second information in the zoneinfo files? > > No, but that is where is should be. It appears to be present, at least in the difference between the "posix" and "right" trees; and its history can be

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon 30 Nov 2020 at 17:28:50 (-0500), Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Finally, competing with the politicians, the scientists have > > complicated things with their atomic time and leap seconds. > > Is there leap-second information in the zoneinfo files? > Isn't this info "global" (i.e. not specific

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Stefan writes: > Is there leap-second information in the zoneinfo files? No, but that is where is should be. > Isn't this info "global" (i.e. not specific to particular time zones)? It is specific to a particular *time*. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

> Finally, competing with the politicians, the scientists have > complicated things with their atomic time and leap seconds. Is there leap-second information in the zoneinfo files? Isn't this info "global" (i.e. not specific to particular time zones)? Stefan "who for some reason

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon 30 Nov 2020 at 13:13:27 (-0500), Robert Tonkavich wrote: > > There are only 24 Time Zones that Encompass the Earth. Is 780 files > overboard? > > I think Yes. You might like to read this take on the complexity of time zones as actually observed. As you can read there, even countries and

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Greg Wooledge wrote: > This is completely inaccurate.  Time zones were not devised by drawing > equally-spaced meridian lines along the globe.  They were invented > by political entities.  They aren't static, either -- they change > from time to time, as political regimes change. > > Time zones

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Robert Tonkavich writes: > There are only 24 Time Zones that Encompass the Earth. It's far more complicated than that. There are 24 geographic time zones but zoneinfo has to deal with local civil time as regulated, often rather capriciously, by national, regional, and local governments.

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 09:44:13AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote: However, there's another consideration: the KISS principle. A system that needs 780 files is going to be a lot more complex and difficult to understand than one that gets by with one or two. Actually, it's a lot more

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 01:13:27PM -0500, Robert Tonkavich wrote: > There are only 24 Time Zones that Encompass the Earth. Is 780 files > overboard? > > I think Yes. This is completely inaccurate. Time zones were not devised by drawing equally-spaced meridian lines along the globe. They were

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

All, There are only 24 Time Zones that Encompass the Earth. Is 780 files overboard? I think Yes. Robert Tonkavich On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 1:00 PM Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:10:02 +0100 "Martin McCormick" > wrote: > > > If you aren't in to trying to modify some

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon, 30 Nov 2020 14:10:02 +0100 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > If you aren't in to trying to modify some sort of > embedded system to do something it wasn't originally designed to > do then ram and storage are getting cheaper by the day and some > things just aren't worth worrying

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Michael Stone writes: > The kernel, compressed, is larger than that. The initrd needed to boot the > kernel is also typically larger than that. A modern system has more CPU > cache than that. At some point trying to save bytes is a waste of > developer > and administrator effort, and 3.5MB in

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Andy Smith writes: > Hi Martin, > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:48:51PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > find . -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \; \ > > |grep -F / \ > > | awk ' { total += $5 } END { print total }' > > > > That usually just adds the sizes of all the files it can > > find all

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

On 2020-11-28 03:08, Kanito 73 wrote: Hello I have up and running two dual boot LINUX (Debian 10) and WINDOWS 10 machines and want to connect them to be able to work without spending time copying files from/to on a usb device, have multiple copies of a same file, etc. You can use WinSCP to to

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

Kanito 73 wrote: > At first I thought to use both SAMBA for LINUX-WINDOWS and maybe NFS for > LINUX-LINUX but I used NFS long time ago and it was slow as a turtle. Is > there another networking service available that runs faster only for > LINUX-LINUX or it is better to use SAMBA for everything_

Re: Sharing files LINUX-LINUX / LINUX-WINDOWS / WINDOWS-WINDOWS

On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 03:08:41 + Kanito 73 wrote: > Hello > > I have up and running two dual boot LINUX (Debian 10) and WINDOWS 10 > machines and want to connect them to be able to work without spending > time copying files from/to on a usb device, have multiple copies of a > same file, etc.

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 01:07:10PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it would be really super clever to treat

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 02:48:12PM +0100, Kamil Jo?ca wrote: > Mike McClain writes: > > [...] > > Locale is another area where there is a lot of data that the > > average user, I suspect, has no use for and localepurge in Debian, at > > least, is hamstrung by the packagers, hooking it to

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

rhkra...@gmail.com writes: > On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 01:07:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: >> As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on >> our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who >> devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon 23 Nov 2020 at 22:16:47 (-0600), Mike McClain wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:51:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's > > > about 1 GB there. > > > >

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Tue 24 Nov 2020 at 13:07:10 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:45:53PM +, Curt wrote: > > I have a problem: > > > > curty@einstein:~$ TZ=EST date > > Tue Nov 24 11:43:42 EST 2020 > > curty@einstein:~$ TZ=PST date > > Tue Nov 24 16:43:54 PST 2020 > > As I said,

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 01:07:10 PM Greg Wooledge wrote: > As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on > our planet is a challenge. Unfortunately, the ... fine people ... who > devised the standards for this sort of thing thought it would be really > super clever to

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Mike McClain writes: [...] > Locale is another area where there is a lot of data that the > average user, I suspect, has no use for and localepurge in Debian, at > least, is hamstrung by the packagers, hooking it to dpkg and I disagree. Even quite small enterprises work internationally now.

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 04:45:53PM +, Curt wrote: > I have a problem: > > curty@einstein:~$ TZ=EST date > Tue Nov 24 11:43:42 EST 2020 > curty@einstein:~$ TZ=PST date > Tue Nov 24 16:43:54 PST 2020 As I said, figuring out the valid TZ strings for a given location on our planet is a

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Tuesday 24 November 2020 11:18:00 John Hasler wrote: > Mike McClain writes: > > I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had > > no storage > > Likewise. > > > ...and my first hard drive was 20M... > > Likewise. > > > ...so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On 2020-11-24, John Hasler wrote: > rhkramer writes: >> To find out the time in some other time zone, I find it convenient to >> just google [time in ] (e.g., time in China). > > "TZ= date" is quicker. "date -d 'time and date in other timezone'" > converts a given time and date to local time and

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

rhkramer writes: > To find out the time in some other time zone, I find it convenient to > just google [time in ] (e.g., time in China). "TZ= date" is quicker. "date -d 'time and date in other timezone'" converts a given time and date to local time and date. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Mike McClain writes: > I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had > no storage Likewise. > ...and my first hard drive was 20M... Likewise. > ...so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is > less than 10KB just doesn't sit well with me. I have 278GB of

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Tuesday, November 24, 2020 08:09:16 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > A few times a year, at most. For others, it will depend on how often > you travel to other time zones, or interact with people in other time > zones, or would simply like to know what time it is in . To find out the time in some

Re: Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:16:47PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had no storage and my first hard drive was 20M so having a directory taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is less than 10KB just doesn't sit well with me. The kernel,

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

> I guess I'm just a little old fashioned. My first computer had > no storage and my first hard drive was 20M so having a directory > taking up 3.5MB when all I'm using there is less than 10KB just > doesn't sit well with me. I can related to that. Note that you can also remove all of that

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:16:47PM -0600, Mike McClain wrote: > In over 20 years running Linux I've never found a use for that > extra 3.5MB data and I wonder how many do. I'm curious Greg, how often > have you used that data? A few times a year, at most. For others, it will depend on how

Re: Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 07:51:09AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's > > about 1 GB there. > > unicorn:~$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo > 3.5M /usr/share/zoneinfo >

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 07:51:09 -0500 Greg Wooledge wrote: > (And yes, I know find | wc -l isn't an accurate way to count files if > their names are unrestricted. Here I'm assuming there aren't a huge > number of filenames in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ with newlines.) You are also assuming that there

Re: Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's > about 1 GB there. unicorn:~$ du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo 3.5M/usr/share/zoneinfo unicorn:~$ find /usr/share/zoneinfo -type f | wc -l 780 Either something's wrong

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Hi Martin, On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:48:51PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > find . -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \; \ > |grep -F / \ > | awk ' { total += $5 } END { print total }' > > That usually just adds the sizes of all the files it can > find all the way through the tree. > > If

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Andy Smith writes: > Hi Martin, > > Are you sure about this? There is no Debian or Ubuntu host I have > access to that has a /usr/share/zoneinfo/ that contains more than > 4MiB of data. For yours to have 256 times this much is quite an > aberration. What did you type to determine that your >

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Sat 21 Nov 2020 at 02:30:08 (+), mike.junk...@att.net wrote: > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and CST6CDT are the > only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of any use to me at all? If so > how? And, yes, I understand that they need to be supplied for every

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 13:20:39 -0600 "Martin McCormick" wrote: > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's > about 1 GB there. Show us what you did. As in, copy and paste from a terminal. E.g.: root@hawk:/usr/share/zoneinfo# du -hs 3.5M. root@hawk:/usr/share/zoneinfo# uname -r

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

> Are you sure about this? There is no Debian or Ubuntu host I have > access to that has a /usr/share/zoneinfo/ that contains more than > 4MiB of data. FWIW: % du -sh /usr/share/zoneinfo/. 5.1M/usr/share/zoneinfo/. 0% This is on a "bog standard" Debian i386 testing (with

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Hi Martin, On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 01:20:39PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just cd'd to that directory and it looks like there's > about 1 GB there. Are you sure about this? There is no Debian or Ubuntu host I have access to that has a /usr/share/zoneinfo/ that contains more than

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

writes: > Suppose a hacker logs into your computer from far, far away, say > from somewhere in Nepal. > > Surely you'd want this person to see the time adapted to their > locale? That's the least courtesy you can be expected to provide? > > ;-P > > Now putting my tongue out of my cheek again:

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 02:30:08AM +, mike.junk...@att.net wrote: > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and > CST6CDT are the only two that might apply to me [...] > [...] if there is any use for them after one's own time zone is set. Suppose a hacker logs into your

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 9:18 PM John Hasler wrote: > Mike writes: > > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and CST6CDT > > are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of any use to me > > at all? If so how? > > Do you ever need to convert the time and date in some

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Mike writes: > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and CST6CDT > are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of any use to me > at all? If so how? Do you ever need to convert the time and date in some distant time zone to your local time or vice versa? The "date"

Re: 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/

Hi Mike, On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 02:30:08AM +, mike.junk...@att.net wrote: > Of the 780 files in /usr/share/zoneinfo/ America/Chicago and > CST6CDT are the only two that might apply to me. Are the rest of > any use to me at all? If so how? And, yes, I understand that they > need to be

Re: AppImage files (was: clipgrab as alternative to youtube-dl)

On 11/18/20 6:07 AM, Fred wrote: On 11/17/20 11:47 PM, Anssi Saari wrote: Fred writes: There is a binary for Linux available for download as a AppImage file. What is an AppImage file and what does one do with it. The program was probably compiled for Ubuntu.  Is it likely to also run on

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

Just use keepass. It installs everywhere and uses decent crypto. On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 5:30 AM Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 08:10:50PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > >Shouldn't this be just the opposite -- local10 should encrypt the file > with his > >recipient's public

Re: Signal [Was:] Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:29:06 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 25 aug 20, 14:17:26, Celejar wrote: > > > > I do use Signal on mobile, and I want to like it, but there are a few > > things about it that just really bother me (these may not be relevant > > to the OPs situation): > > I never

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 08:10:50PM -0400, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't this be just the opposite -- local10 should encrypt the file with his recipient's public key, and then his recipient can unencrypt it with his (the recipient's) private key? You can perform symmetric encryption with

Re: Signal [Was:] Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Ma, 25 aug 20, 14:17:26, Celejar wrote: > > I do use Signal on mobile, and I want to like it, but there are a few > things about it that just really bother me (these may not be relevant > to the OPs situation): I never claimed it's perfect, just that it's not a "black box". See also this

Signal [Was:] Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:03:21 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 21 aug 20, 13:07:56, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:31:00 -0500 > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, and > > > it's not some mystery box like

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 09:30:09 +0200 wrote: > I always thought it should be banned by the Geneva Convention, but > OSHA would be fine by me, too. I think the US stopped honoring the Geneva Conventions during the Dubya administration. Of course, that doesn't leave much hope for OSHA enforcement

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Sun, 23 Aug 2020 14:03:21 +0300 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > Signal is free and open source software. > > Please do feel free to inspect the source code for potential back > doors or vulnerabilities. Thank you for the correction. https://signal.org -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Vi, 21 aug 20, 13:07:56, Charles Curley wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:31:00 -0500 > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, and > > it's not some mystery box like Signal. > > ++ > > It also has the advantage that the cryptext will stay

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 11:01:34AM +0200, Marek Mosiewicz wrote: [...] > Not to mention that GPG can be used for asymmetric cryptography. Yeah, but it's a "Windows user" at the other end, and (s)he's "too dumb to install software". And "gpg is too hard". I must say, this theme, which came up

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

W dniu pią, 21.08.2020 o godzinie 13∶07 -0600, użytkownik Charles Curley napisał: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:31:00 -0500 > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, > > and > > it's not some mystery box like Signal. > > ++ > > It also has the

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:43:56 -0500 Greg Marks wrote: > One cross-platform encryption method would be to use OpenSSL > (https://www.openssl.org/). The Linux user might use the following > commands. > > Encryption: > openssl aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -iter 100 -in plaintext.txt -out >

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

One cross-platform encryption method would be to use OpenSSL (https://www.openssl.org/). The Linux user might use the following commands. Encryption: openssl aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -iter 100 -in plaintext.txt -out ciphertext.txt Decryption: openssl aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -iter 100 -d -in

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On 2020-08-21 18:46, local10 wrote: Hi, What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them? Any ideas? Thanks If these are documents what's wrong with open office protected

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

Darac Marjal wrote: > Signal (signal.org) > > Signal is an instant messaging application. It uses a well respected > end-to-end encryption protocol (meaning that the messages are encrypted > by the client and sent over the internet before being decrypted by the > recipient's client). OP asking

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 09:28:02PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:10:50 -0400 > rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: [...] > You're right. Please consider my last email proof that exposure to > Windows causes brain damage and that its use in the corporate workplace > should be

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:10:50 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Friday, August 21, 2020 04:11:19 PM Matthew Graybosch wrote: > > I don't disagree, but how likely is it that local10's intended > > recipient will... > > > > 1. Have GnuPG installed on their Windows machine? > > 2. Know how to use

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, On 22/8/20 3:46 am, local10 wrote: > What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux > and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able > decrypt and read them? > > Any ideas? Thanks Lots of

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Friday, August 21, 2020 04:11:19 PM Matthew Graybosch wrote: > I don't disagree, but how likely is it that local10's intended > recipient will... > > 1. Have GnuPG installed on their Windows machine? > 2. Know how to use it to decrypt files using local10's public key? Shouldn't this be just

[OT] Linux-Fan's bad signatures (Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows)

Teemu Likonen writes: * 2020-08-21 20:24:29+02, Linux-Fan wrote: > GPG should also run on Windows, but is a little harder to use IMHO. GnuPG it is pretty hard everywhere. Your recent signatures are reported as "bad" (at least by Notmuch and Mutt). The signed data (message) doesn't match with

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

* 2020-08-21 20:24:29+02, Linux-Fan wrote: > GPG should also run on Windows, but is a little harder to use IMHO. GnuPG it is pretty hard everywhere. Your recent signatures are reported as "bad" (at least by Notmuch and Mutt). The signed data (message) doesn't match with the signature. About

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

Am Freitag, 21. August 2020, 22:24:48 CEST schrieb Hans: Additional info: Just see here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19943903/build-windows-7z-self-extracting-installer-on-linux-server-how-to-change-exe-ic[1] Good luck! Hans > Am Freitag, 21. August 2020, 19:46:13 CEST schrieb

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Am Freitag, 21. August 2020, 19:46:13 CEST schrieb local10: Don't know, how stupid the user is. Try to use a selfexttracting form, like blapacked.exe. I suppose, to make a double click on this file, he will most likely be able to manage. Installing software, huh, much too hard for most windows

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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 21:59:15 +0200 wrote: > If you are somewhat serious about security, you better don't use this: > > "ZIP supports a simple password-based symmetric encryption >system generally known as ZipCrypto. It is documented in >the ZIP specification, and known to be seriously

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On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 02:42:23PM -0400, Matthew Graybosch wrote: > On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:46:13 +0200 (CEST) > local10 wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on > > Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she > > would

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john doe writes: On 8/21/2020 9:11 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-08-21 11:24, Linux-Fan wrote: [...] Encrypt on Linux: $ 7z a -ptestwort -mhe=on secret.7z secret.txt Decrypt on Windows: Double-Click or use commandline: % 7z x -o. secret.7z So, the recipient must install 7-Zip on

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On 2020-08-21 12:10, Teemu Likonen wrote: I forgot to say that the file names are not encrypted in Zip archives. They can be seen without password. To protect against that use Zip twice: the inner layer is unencrypted archive for all the files and outer layer encrypts the inner Zip file.

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On 8/21/2020 9:11 PM, David Christensen wrote: On 2020-08-21 11:24, Linux-Fan wrote: local10 writes: Hi, What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a  non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them? Any ideas?

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On 2020-08-21 11:24, Linux-Fan wrote: local10 writes: Hi, What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a  non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them? Any ideas? Thanks Consider 7-Zip from Debian package

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* 2020-08-21 22:00:45+03, Teemu Likonen wrote: > If your security is just about confidentiality (other's can't have the > content) and you don't have really serious hackers targeting you then > probably encrypted Zip archives are good enough. Obviously a good enough > password is needed and

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On 2020-08-21 10:46, local10 wrote: Hi, What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them? Any ideas? Thanks I maintain a working Windows installation for use-cases like

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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 13:31:00 -0500 Paul Johnson wrote: > GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, and > it's not some mystery box like Signal. ++ It also has the advantage that the cryptext will stay encrypted on any intermediate servers. WhatsApp and Signal claim their

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* 2020-08-21 19:46:13+02, local wrote: > What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on > Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would > be able decrypt and read them? If your security is just about confidentiality (other's can't have the content)

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On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 19:46:13 +0200 (CEST) local10 wrote: > Hi, > > What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on > Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she > would be able decrypt and read them? The "zip" command has an "--encrypt" option. As long

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:46 PM local10 wrote: > What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux > and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able > decrypt and read them? > GnuPG. It's in Debian, there's Windows versions on its website, and

Re: Encrypt files on Linux, decrypt on Windows

local10 writes: Hi, What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them? Any ideas? Thanks Consider 7-Zip from Debian package p7zip-full and available for Windows syswtems:

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On 8/21/2020 7:46 PM, local10 wrote: Hi, What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able decrypt and read them? Any ideas? Thanks Veracrypt could be one option. -- John Doe

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On 21/08/2020 18:46, local10 wrote: > Hi, > > What would be a reasonably secure and simple way to encrypt files on Linux > and then send them to a non-technical Windows user so she would be able > decrypt and read them? Signal (signal.org) Signal is an instant messaging application. It uses a

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