Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > 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.
Errr, I don't thin thats right. Even if they have the machine, they still don't have the pass phrase. Is that right? Any crypto gurus out there? Anyway, based on the idea that public key crypto is still Ok for this, I spent a couple of hours and bashed out a little app using libgpgme and that seems to work for me. Then I found the -x option in Vim. Anyone know what crypto algorithm it uses? I really hope its not XOR. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ "Therapists typically base the nuttiness of a patient on the strength of their convictions, on which basis this 43,000 word opus alone stands as a kind of testament to Bill's (Gates) madness." - The Register -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
