RE: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-10-03 Thread michael
s via a command line. Cheers, Rony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:39 PM To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting fil

RE: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-26 Thread michael
siest way to encrypt/decrypt files via a command line. Cheers, Rony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:39 PM To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il Subject: What's a d

RE: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-26 Thread Rony Shapiro
MAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:39 PM > To: linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > Subject: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files? > > I'm not looking for the industrial strenght solution of gpg > with keys for > myself and all the people i&

Re: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-25 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 02:03:24PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i don't require keys at all. all i want is a program that encrypts my files, > and un-encrypts them only when i give my secret password. i'd rather not > have > keys, because then i can't decrypt on a different machine, without c

Re: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > what is the formal distinction between a password and a key? A key is any secret used for encryption. A password can be made into a key, usually by passing it through some cryptographic hash function and taking some of the bits. HOWEVER, A password can only generate a

Re: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-25 Thread michael
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: while i'm not afraid of substantial setups (i use gentoo after all), i don't like putting all that time into a tool that does much more than i need, if a simpler tool exists. Your requirement that encryption be easy but d

Re: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > while i'm not afraid of substantial setups (i use gentoo after > all), i don't like putting all that time into a tool that does much > more than > i need, if a simpler too exists. Your requirement that encryption be easy but decryption require a key implies public key cr

Re: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-25 Thread michael
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, Shachar Shemesh wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not looking for the industrial strenght solution of gpg with keys for myself and all the people i'll be exchanging messages with; just a simple tool like crypt of old days that i can use to encypt a text file. i don't

Re: What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-25 Thread Shachar Shemesh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not looking for the industrial strenght solution of gpg with keys for > myself and all the people i'll be exchanging messages with; just a > simple tool > like crypt of old days that i can use to encypt a text file. i don't > need to > sign the file as no one else wi

What's a decent encryption tool for encrypting files?

2006-09-25 Thread michael
I'm not looking for the industrial strenght solution of gpg with keys for myself and all the people i'll be exchanging messages with; just a simple tool like crypt of old days that i can use to encypt a text file. i don't need to sign the file as no one else will be getting it. as an added bonus,