GPG2 encryption options

MFPA expires2013 at ymail.com
Wed Oct 9 01:15:32 CEST 2013


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Hi


On Thursday 3 October 2013 at 5:46:24 AM, in
<mid:1380775584103-32819.post at n7.nabble.com>, mightymouse2045 wrote:



> There are some files I don't like having to enter a
> passphrase for each time due to them be accessed very
> frequently, but I don't want the contents of them being
> stored plaintext either.

Depending on your threat model, these suggestions may be completely
inappropriate.

You want the files encrypted but but don't want to keep entering a
passphrase to decrypt them.

One way to achieve this is to encrypt them to an OpenPGP key that has
an empty passphrase.

Another suggestion is to store the files on an encrypted disk instead
of using GnuPG. This would require disk encryption software, of which
one example is TrueCrypt (see <http://www.truecrypt.org/>).

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Best regards

MFPA                    mailto:expires2013 at ymail.com

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