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On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 07:27:35AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 180703 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> >> I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted : |
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> >> one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a spreadsheet ( .ods ). |
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> >> I haven't used encryption like this before : what do others use ? |
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> > I have used `gpg' to do this before: |
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> > # Encrypt with a passphrase |
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> > gpg -c <file> |
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> > # Decrypt |
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> > gpg -d <file>.gpg |
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> > I do have some files I keep encrypted locally |
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> > that I use `gpg' to encrypt/decrypt, but with my personal key pair. |
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> > For that, I use a vim plugin [1] that transparently decrypts to `/tmp', |
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> > lets me edit and then saves back to the original file. |
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> > This prevents the decrypted contents from ever being on my hard drive, |
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> > as I have `/tmp' mounted as tmpfs. |
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> Thanks, that's very helpful except that you forgot to append [1] (smile). |
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Ouch. I meant to link to https://github.com/jamessan/vim-gnupg. |
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> I don't need to encrypt the files locally, |
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> but do need to when I create copies to up-load as off-site back-ups. |
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Someone else mentioned duplicity, which I've used in the past. It's |
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built to do encrypted backups to S3/Dropbox/scp. |
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Alec |
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