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Hoping some of you may know the ins and outs of somekind of privacy |
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precautions for files on disk with such things as software reg keys, |
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passwrds to various stuff, and stupidly... credit card numbers etc. |
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I'm on a single user machine so the threat is from network more than |
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console. Also I keep backup copies on a remote machine that I don't |
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control and is part of the big bad internet. |
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I've visualized something that somehow encrypts a directory or |
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several. But in a handy way where it can be opened and used several |
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times daily without bringing a lunch. |
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I thought since I'm well familiar with tar and gzip it might be |
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something to tar.gz the directories and encrypt the result. Deleting |
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the source. |
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But I'm hoping there may be stuff even easier and less time intensive. |
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The amount of data is under 10 mb always and in fact stands around |
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1.6mb at present. |
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I looked a bit at BestCrypt but decided its a big poorly documented |
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pain in the butt. Needs kernel mods etc etc. |
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I wondered if something as simple as passworded rar files might fill |
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the bill. |
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What options are out there? |
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