[Preston] Reading an encrypted file from a windows machine

[Dougie Nisbet]

On Tuesday 20 April 2004 12:33, jeremy ekers wrote:

>
> 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?
>

They're networked. I'd like to set up something up that Mrs Dougie can just 
click on and type a password. A couple of years ago I bought and installed 
Xdeep - an X emulator. I have limited success with that by getting it to call 
a remote wrapper script, something along the lines of

	xterm -e /usr/local/bin/lesspass

where lesspass contains

	gpg --decrypt passfile | less -i

but it only works after a fashion. Whenever I run the Xserver software on the 
windows PC it tends to become a bit unstable, or a bit more unstable. I'd 
really rather have a copy of the file on the windows PC. 

Another thought I had was zipping it up on linux PC then scp'ing to the 
windows PC. I've not investigating whether I can zip  something with a 
password, and whether winzip can unzip it. 

Hmmm, from the 'zip' man page:


  -e     Encrypt the contents of the zip archive using a  password  which
              is  entered  on  the terminal in response to a prompt (this will
              not be echoed; if standard error is not a  tty,  zip  will  exit
              with  an  error).   The  password prompt is repeated to save the
              user from typing errors.

I might have a muckabout with that later.

Dougie