[Preston] Reading an encrypted file from a windows machine

[jeremy ekers]

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Dougie Nisbet wrote:

| 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.

There is a cygwin X implementation for free - but I havn't tried it yet.

|
| 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.

scp can compress using the -C option.

OTOH, if you have gpg keys on both machines, email it from one side to
the other. There are GPG plugins for Thunderbird, Outlook, etc. that
will en/decode a signed/encrypted message (but will not handle an
attachment).

Or you could just burp (http://www.geodyssey.com/cryptography/burp.txt).

regards,
jeremy

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