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

[Leroy Tennison]

Stephen Davidson wrote:
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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.
>>
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> 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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Well, because I didn't know about it, thanks for the info.