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Subject: Re: File encryption: bdes or gpg
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Bill Moran wrote:
> Another option that you didn't even bring up:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-encrypting.html 

Right now I am running 4.9 but upgrading to 5 is definitely a 
possibility. Thanks a lot for the pointer.

Best wishes,
Simon

> If you're not using 5.x, then this isn't available to you yet.  But I 
> thought
> I'd bring it up in case you weren't aware of it.
> 
> Simon Bates wrote:
> 
>> I am hoping someone can give me advice on file encryption. I would 
>> like to encrypt a file and store it on my filesystem. I would like to 
>> encrypt the file so that my data is not readable by someone who gains 
>> root access or physical access to my computer. I do not intend to 
>> share the data with anyone else so a public/private key system is 
>> optional.