Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo">
> 
> > Does anybody have any recomendations for a program that can be used to
> > store passwords, bank account details etc in an encrypted file?
> 
> You're going to smack me for this, but... gpg? :-)

Maybe not so silly. 

Obviously you don't want to use to use public key encryption because that 
would put the private key, the public key and the cipher text all on the 
same machine. That makes the encrypted data only as secure as the machine
its sitting on.

However (I didn't know this until I looked at the man page), gpg also
has symmetric ciphers. Now I need to figure out if those symmetric ciphers
can be used can be used from libgpgme.
 
Erik
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