[NCLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 - file encryption

[William Greger]

Rob,

  Thank you for your input.  It's great to find out what other alternatives are at my disposal.
I'll do some study on this and give it a try.

Bill Greger

> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:46:09 -0500
> From: verigoth at gmail.com
> To: nclug at nclug.org
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 - file encryption
> 
> It seems to me that is simply a GUI for gnupg. I only have Ubuntu
> installed in a virtual machine and didn't play with it too much (I
> don't even have a gpg key on there) but the command line equivalent
> would be something like:
> 
> gpg -ser <your name> file_to_encrypt
> 
> where your name would most likely be your e-mail address (you can
> specify multiple recipients with multiple -r switches: '-r <name>').
> This will create a file_to_encrypt.gpg which contains the encrypted
> data. If you want it to use only ASCII, use -sear...which will create
> file_to_encrypt.asc.
> 
> You can then decrypt it with gpg -d file_to_decrypt.gpg
> 
> Note that this method also includes your digital signature (the -s switch).
> 
> On 7/30/08, Onyx <onyx at frii.com> wrote:
> > Oh, and by the way, ccrypt was designed as a replacement for crypt.  You
> > should be able to decrypt anything crypt encrypted with ccrypt...if that
> > makes sense.  =)
> >
> > Onyx Mueller
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Onyx [mailto:onyx at frii.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:05 PM
> > To: 'Northern Colorado Linux Users Group'
> > Subject: RE: [NCLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 - file encryption
> >
> > Regarding your second point, I believe it's as simple as:
> >
> > sudo apt-get install ccrypt
> >
> > If you prefer to refer 'ccrypt' as 'crypt' at the command-line, just make an
> > alias.
> >
> > I hope that answers your question.
> >
> > Onyx Mueller
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nclug-bounces at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-bounces at nclug.org] On Behalf Of
> > William Greger
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 11:57 AM
> > To: nclug at nclug.org
> > Subject: [NCLUG] Ubuntu 8.04 - file encryption
> >
> >
> > 1. GUI mode
> >     - select a file, right click
> >     - resulting menu includes   Encrypt..
> >     - select   Encrypt.. ;fill in resulting menu and file gets encrypted
> >    CLI mode
> >     - what is the equivalent command to  encrypt  a file?
> >
> > 2. crypt  command
> >     - Ubuntu basic installation does not include the  crypt  command
> >     - can/does Ubuntu support the  crypt  command?
> >       * if yes, how do I get, install  crypt?
> >
> > Bill Greger
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