--- Brian Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have no prior experience in encryption but wants to figure out how
> to - as
> safe as possible - encrypt some files on my computer. I have been
> looking at
> both GNUPG and Mcrypt. I am not interested in the KEY part of GNUPG
> but only
> encrypting files.
With GnuPG, if you don't want to use keys (assymetric encryption) then
you can use a simple password (symmetric encryption) to encrypt/decrypt
individual files.
To encrypt file doc.txt:
$ gpg --output doc.gpg --symmetric doc.txt
To decrypt file doc.gpg:
$ gpg --output doc.txt --decrypt doc.gpg
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