[Novalug] how to lock a file with a key

[Rich Goodwin]

You could use gpg.  It is available on Linux & Winderz (and other OS's).
You setup a keyring - directions abound but check out Mandy's PGP talk a
few years ago.  The destination sets up a keyring as well.  You trust
each other ... and encrypt the file.  gpg is good .  I use gpg to
encrypt a file that is sent to someone who uses PGP and al works fine.

Rich

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 19:03 -0500, Nino Pereira wrote:
> A simple question for security experts:
> 
> I'd like to scramble a file, send it by email,
> and then unscamble it at the other end. I'd like
> it to be scrambled with a key, which only I know,
> so that I can unscramble it at the other end with
> this same key.
> 
> Any earlier discussion about hashes and md5 and such
> mostly went by me because I didn't expect to ever want to do
> this, but now that I do I can't remember what to google for.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Nino
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