Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:02:26 -0400 From: Simon Bates <simon.bates@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: File encryption: bdes or gpg Message-ID: <40B4A372.5020506@utoronto.ca>
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Dear all, I am fairly new to FreeBSD and this is my first post to freebsd-questions. I hope I am asking my question in the correct forum. Apologies if not. I am hoping someone can give me advice on file encryption. I would like to encrypt a file and store it on my filesystem. I would like to encrypt the file so that my data is not readable by someone who gains root access or physical access to my computer. I do not intend to share the data with anyone else so a public/private key system is optional. I did some Googling and some reading of man pages and I have come up with 3 options thus far: 1. bdes(1) 2. gpg -c (/usr/ports/security/gnupg) 3. gpg (/usr/ports/security/gnupg) with a public/private key pair for me plus a passphrase I would really appreciate any pointers to discussions of the relative merits of these approaches or pointers to better options if available. Thank you all very much for your time. Best wishes, Simon
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