On Wed December 5 2007, Robin Laing wrote: > Mike wrote: > >> Claude Jones wrote: > >>> subject says it all > >>> Does any one know of such a package? Drag and drop would be nice - > >>> looking for a simple package to encrypt and password protect > >>> selectable files and folders > > > > I searched for something similar (had to be open source and cross > > platform) about a year ago and the only thing I found was Truecrypt > > (http://www.truecrypt.org). > > > > It doesn't fit your description exactly but may be useable. I don't > > think they have an RPM available for Fedora leaving you to compile from > > source. You have to recompile upon kernel upgrades too... > > > > -- Mike > > I found a site that makes rpms of TrueCrypt. I wish it could be > included in the extras. I had a pain getting all the source files to > compile TrueCrypt. > > http://rpmfarm.free.fr/7/i386/RPMS.farm/ > > http://platformedia.blogspot.com/2007/07/truecrypt-43-on-fedora-7-build-fro >m.html > > I was informed by one of our IT staff that there is now a way to get > Ubuntu to encrypt home directories through synaptic. I may have to move > to Ubuntu for this. > > I want my whole Hard drive encrypted as well as user level encryption. > I have done some reading about fuse and dm-crypt but have not had time > to test. > > There are some howtos around on doing this. > > -- > Robin Laing Thanks to all for your suggestions. I did find that gnupg was installed on my machine already, and a simple right click on a file in Konqueror lead me to an option to use a GUI to encrypt a file. Prior to doing that, I installed GPA which opens a GUI that walks you through setting up a key and passphrase. When I found the option to encrypt files in Konqueror, it offered the option to use the key I'd generated with GPA and created a *.asc file. I'm still new to all this, and did not have time to really plumb these capabilities... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
