solution to encrypt txt file

Chrys349 · 2011-10-18 20:14:44

I have a text file in wich I've stored account passwords, so I won't have to remenber them after OS and browser reinstallation, and when I was using windows, I was keeping that txt file in a password protected archive, just in case someone breaks into my system, but I switched from windows to linux and I need a solution to password protect this file. Is there an alternative to winrar for linux, or is there a better solution to archiving + password protecting the archive ?

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lifeafter2am · 2011-10-18 20:29:04

You can:
1) Encrypt the file with gpg
2) Create an encrypted container to store the file in using TrueCrypt

jetm · 2011-10-19 01:35:57

lifeafter2am wrote:

1) Encrypt the file with gpg

$ gpg -c foo.txt
Enter passphrase:<PASSWORD>
Repeat passphrase:<PASSWORD>

This will create foo.txt.gpg file

2) Decrypt the file

$ gpg foo.txt.gpg
gpg: CAST5 encrypted data
Enter passphrase: <PASSWORD>
gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase

More gpg options:

$ man gpg

Ansikt · 2011-10-19 01:57:16

Seconding the TrueCrypt suggestion (it's an absolutely awesome, solid program in my experience), but I'm wondering if that's the solution for you. There are a lot of specialized "password keepers" for linux, which may be easier to manage than your file.

Here's a good article containing a review of a number of them, but there's tons out there, if you feel like looking.

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stqn · 2011-10-19 22:28:40

zip

Wittfella · 2011-10-20 01:57:01

I like 7z as it supports encryption and works the same on linux/win so its good if you need to transfer between the two.

orschiro · 2011-10-20 03:05:08

Especially if you want to encrypt txt files a editor with encryption support may suit your task very well. One editor that I can highly recommend is CryptoTE, which can be found in the AUR.

CryptoTE is based on the scintilla widget, is very easy to handle and stores the data in a way that should be sufficient and safe enough.

Regards

lolilolicon · 2011-10-20 03:55:33

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/e … encryption

firecat53 · 2011-10-20 04:31:36

keepassx is a great little program to keep your passwords and other data encrypted...and you can keep the little encrypted database file in something like dropbox or on a flash drive as well so you can use keepass on any windows or linux system (and keep them sync'd if you use dropbox!).

Scott

itman · 2011-10-20 05:40:43

firecat53 wrote:

keepassx is a great little program to keep your passwords and other data encrypted...and you can keep the little encrypted database file in something like dropbox or on a flash drive as well so you can use keepass on any windows or linux system (and keep them sync'd if you use dropbox!).
Scott

and on android too.

android != linux

halhen · 2011-10-22 07:44:54

As lolilolicon suggest, vim can handle the job.

I have a directory of text files that contains my life: todo lists, diary, bookmarks, recipes and passwords. I want some of these files encrypted. To encrypt a file, a simple

:X

in vim lets me enter a password, which I next time must enter to open the file. Since version 7.3, vim supports blowfish. Enable it with

set cryptmethod=blowfish

in ~/.vimrc.

Sure, the integration is smoother from a proper password keeper, but I want to keep my passwords with everything else and I want to encrypt other things than passwords. I'm happy with this setup.

Arch Linux

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