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On 04/23/2017 05:12 PM, Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 23 Apr 2017 16:42:12 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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>> I'm looking for a solution to encrypt and attachment to Windows users. |
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>> gpg does not support "sda" Self Decrypting Archives. |
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>> Occasionally I have to send an attachment via email and would prefer if |
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>> the file was encrypted. Asking Windows users to use PGP is almost |
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>> impossible. |
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>> Sending them txt.exe and asking the to run it will not go well. |
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> What is it you want to encrypt? An email? An attachment? Both? |
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> For email inc. attachments you can use SSL Certificates with S/MIME. MS |
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> Outlook can handle S/MIME encrypted emails natively and you can get SSL |
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> Certificates from a variety of CAs, some of them free for personal use. You |
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> can always use self-signed certificates, but initially you will have to guide |
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> your recipients to store the self-signed certificates and mark them as trusted |
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> on their PCs. |
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> Alternatively, you can install gpg4Win on MS PCs and use that to exchange PGP |
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> encrypted messages and attachments. Your recipients may need some training to |
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> familiarize themselves with the gpg4Win interface, but it is not that |
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> dissimilar to MS Outlook's S/MIME GUI. |
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> Thunderbird can deal with both PGP & S/MIME using Enigmail. |
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> If you only need to encrypt attachments (files/directories) besides the above |
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> solutions (gpg4win will also encrypt/decrypt files separately to emails), you |
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> can use zip/7zip and encrypt with a symmetric key the contents of the |
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> generated archive. You will need of course to share the encryption password |
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> for the zipped archive with your recipients securely off line. |
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> PS. 7z can create self-extracting archives and I had looked into this in the |
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> past, but I was not able to make it work off the peg in Gentoo. It kept |
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> asking about /usr/lib64/p7zip/7z.sfx which is not installed by default with |
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> 7zip. After some failed attempts I gave up and sought alternatives. |
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I think mostly they will be sending some pdf files + some images. |
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After sending the encrypted file they will follow with a call to provide |
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"password" this shouldn't be a problem. |
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I'll try 7zip, see if it works already. |
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