Very good suggestion! Thanks! I knew about TrueCrypt before (it's really excellent) but I didn't think of it for this purpose because it didn't show up when I did a Synaptic search. I'll see if I can get it installed on ubuntu and used with Python. Actually, the URL you give doesn't work (at least for me). But I found the following by googling the URL:
http://blog.bjrn.se/2008/02/truecrypt-explained-truecrypt-5-update.html On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 3:46 AM, Daniele<d.co...@gmail.com> wrote: >> From: Wayne <sri...@gmail.com> > >> If you want the most basic encryption you could simply XOR the file. It's >> fairly easy to break, though, because the same character patterns will be >> present as with your original file. > > Actually if you do it properly this kind of encryption is unbreakable, > but you'd have to: > 1. generate a random key long enough to cover your data > 2. keep the key secure and in a separate place > 3. DON'T use the key twice > > there must be a Security Now episode that explains the thing pretty > well (could be this one http://www.grc.com/sn/sn-011.htm). > Some arguments may rise against the randomness of the key, but I don't > think its the case to go into that. > > You could also use TrueCrypt which is an extremely powerful > cryptographic software (open source), I found this article that can > help you linking it with python: > http://blog.bjrn.se/2008/01/truecrypt-explained.html > -- Robert Lummis _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
