Hi all,
maybe this question is completely stupid and only shows I didn't
understand anything about encryption, but anyway I'm really curious:
I want to store some of my private files encrypted on my NAS. Until
now, I'm using --symmetric for encryption with a (think so) strong
password that I can remember. Now I want to make this "process" more
robust and more user-friendly - I don't want to enter my password every
time I'm encrypting a file. I want to sort of store the password in a
short script so that I just type "my_gpg /foo/bar/" and it gets done
without further input from me.
Yes, I know I shouldn't store my password in a script;-) Acutally I
don't want to store it anywhere. Also I don't want to depend on a
private key that is stored somewhere. What I'd like to do is: create a
public key so that the corresponding private key equals my given
password. I could store that public key in my script and, for
decryption, just enter my remembered password as I do it with the
--symmetric option I'm currently using.
Does this make any sense? Is it possible or did I miss some other way
to achieve my goal (no password for encryption, no private key for
decryption)?
Thanks
Ben
P.S.: I also don't really want to set up a password agent on every
machine I want to encrypt files on.
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