Re: use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-18 Thread sweepslate
On 10/17/2011 4:49 PM, David Tomaschik wrote: I like GnuPG as much as the next guy around here, but is there a reason you want to use GPG instead of a tool designed for disk encryption? TrueCrypt is cross-platform and works well... if you're Windows-only, there's BitLocker, and for Linux there's

Re: use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-18 Thread sweepslate
This works, thank you :) On 10/17/2011 4:09 PM, Hauke Laging wrote: Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011, 13:51:03 schrieb sweepslate: The end goal is to encrypt a volume of around 100GB of personal files that I'll be carrying arround with me in a portable drive. The key point is doing the encryption

Re: use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-17 Thread David Tomaschik
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:51 AM, sweepslate wrote: > The end goal is to encrypt a volume of around 100GB of personal files that > I'll be carrying arround with me in a portable drive. I like GnuPG as much as the next guy around here, but is there a reason you want to use GPG instead of a tool des

Re: use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-17 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011, 13:51:03 schrieb sweepslate: > The end goal is to encrypt a volume of around 100GB of personal files > that I'll be carrying arround with me in a portable drive. > The key point is doing the encryption of 14000 files in a > non-interactive way. echo fubar | gpg --symm

Re: use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
On 10/17/2011 7:51 AM, sweepslate wrote: > I wanted to use something larger than a passphrase so I wondered if I > can use a key. But on a second thought, I could use a SHA512SUM as a > passphrase, which is 128 bytes in length. That makes it 1024 bits; > correct? It's like a small key. I could use

Re: use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-17 Thread sweepslate
The end goal is to encrypt a volume of around 100GB of personal files that I'll be carrying arround with me in a portable drive. It's around 14000 files, so I can't possibly encrypt them one-by-one interactively! Doing a tarball is going to be time-consuming, space consuming [1], and cumbersom

Re: use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-16 Thread Doug Barton
On 10/16/2011 14:37, sweepslate wrote: > I want to encrypt a file symmetrically but use a key instead of a > passphrase. It's sort of hard to understand what you're trying to accomplish, can you give us more details? Doug ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

use key, not passphrase, in symmetric encryption

2011-10-16 Thread sweepslate
I want to encrypt a file symmetrically but use a key instead of a passphrase. Is this possible? ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users