[Preston] Reading an encrypted file from a windows machine

jeremy ekers jeremy at ekers.idps.co.uk
Tue Apr 20 12:28:47 BST 2004


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Dougie Nisbet wrote:

| I keep bank card info and PINs etc in a gpg encrypted file. I'd like
to copy
| this to a windows98 machine and somehow maintain some encryption.
Approaches
| I've thought of so far are:
| - creating a winzip archive with password protection and adding
unencrypted
| file to that
| - same idea, but with MS Word.
| - Installing something on the PC that would allow it to decrypt the
copied
| file by entering the password.

How about ssh?

You haven't said what kind of network is between the 2 machines - is it
secure/under your control? Is this wifi?

regards,
jeremy

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