Re: [gentoo-user] how best to encrypt a file

[Alex Luehm]

On July 3, 2018 7:33:27 AM CDT, Samuraiii <samurai.no.dojo@×××××.com> wrote:
>On 3.7.2018 13:27, Philip Webb wrote:
>> 180703 Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 03, 2018 at 05:47:22AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
>>>> I have a couple of small files which need to be encrypted :
>>>> one is simple text ( .txt ), the other a spreadsheet ( .ods ).
>>>> I haven't used encryption like this before : what do others use ?
>>> I have used `gpg' to do this before:
>>>     # Encrypt with a passphrase
>>>     gpg -c <file>
>>>     # Decrypt
>>>     gpg -d <file>.gpg
>>> I do have some files I keep encrypted locally
>>> that I use `gpg' to encrypt/decrypt, but with my personal key pair.
>>> For that, I use a vim plugin [1] that transparently decrypts to
>`/tmp',
>>> lets me edit and then saves back to the original file.
>>> This prevents the decrypted contents from ever being on my hard
>drive,
>>> as I have `/tmp' mounted as tmpfs.
>> Thanks, that's very helpful except that you forgot to append [1]
>(smile).
>>
>> I don't need to encrypt the files locally,
>> but do need to when I create copies to up-load as off-site back-ups.
>>
>> Does anyone else have a useful suggestion ?
>>
>Hi,
>
>there is "reverse" encfs if there are more files to encrypt for backup.
>
>encfs --reverse ~/dir /tmp/dir
>
>It will encrypt original files on fly as you read /tmp/dir.
>
>I used this before (now I backup with duplicity).
>
>S
>
>PS: link to arch page with some more info
>
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EncFS#Encrypted_backup
 
I'd recommend taking a look at borg backup. I've used it for remote backups over ssh and the deduplication and automatic encryption is aweaome. Maybe a bit overkill, but I believe in encryptes backups. 

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