Re: [CODE4LIB] Encrypting jpg, png or PDF

2023-04-04 Thread ross-spencer
Just one more thing! Of course, it may be difficult to find a user-experience that works well for yourselves and your users. An even more generic approach is to ZIP the files with encryption. This has an added benefit of allowing you to send packets of data, not just individual files. I don't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Encrypting jpg, png or PDF

2023-04-04 Thread Joe Hourclé
PDF actually has encryption as part of the standard, so I would recommend searching in the help for whatever PDF tool you’re using, as it’s more likely that whomever you send it to will be able to unencrypt it. They should be prompted for a password when trying to open the file, rather than con

Re: [CODE4LIB] Encrypting jpg, png or PDF

2023-04-04 Thread ross-spencer
Hi Charles, You're likely using in-built features of Word to encrypt those documents; this tends to encrypt the payload inside the Word file format wrapper. With JPG or PNG at least, you're going to need a generic approach to encryption, so using openssl or gpg to encrypt the entire file stream

[CODE4LIB] Encrypting jpg, png or PDF

2023-04-03 Thread charles meyer
I'm in a bit of a time crunch, but does anyone now how to encrypt a jpg, png or PDF which contains confidential info? You can encrypt an MS Word file but I’ve never done that with any of the above listed formats. If you are kind enough to post to the list would you also please BCC your post t