[NTLUG:Discuss] Good encryption program for Linux and Windows

[Stephen Davidson]

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richard witt wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 10:43 PM, Leroy Tennison
> <leroy_tennison at prodigy.net> wrote:
>> I have a need to send an encrypted file to another person who uses
>> Windows.  Needless to say, I run Linux, if I have to use Windows I'm
>> going to have to reinstall Windows 98se (it's the latest I have since I
>> abandoned Windows some time ago) on a hard drive, install some program,
>> copy the file to Windows, encrypt it, copy it back to Linux and send it.
>>   Needless to say, I'd prefer to not do that.
>>
>> I am looking for a program which I can use to encrypt the file on Linux
>> and, when the other person receives it, can simply run it as a program
>> on Windows (providing the decryption key I communicate by other means)
>> and have the decrypted copy.  Any ideas?
> 
> 
> http://www.truecrypt.org/
> Should work fine for what you are wanting to do also. As Mr Taber said
> you can also use GnuPG.
> 

What's wrong with the -e option on zip?  Winzip seems to have handled it
quite well for encrypting/decrypting on the other end.

Regards,
Steve

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