lightweight encryption of text file

[Carl Banks]

On Jan 8, 11:14 am, Daniel Fetchinson <fetchin... at googlemail.com>
wrote:
> I have a plain text file which I would like to protect in a very
> simple minded, yet for my purposes sufficient, way. I'd like to
> encrypt/convert it into a binary file in such a way that possession of
> a password allows anyone to convert it back into the original text
> file while not possessing the password one would only see the
> following with the standard linux utility 'file':
>
> [fetchinson at fetch ~]$ file encrypted.data
> encrypted.data: data
>
> and the effort required to convert the file back to the original text
> file without the password would be equivalent to guessing the
> password.


gpg -c simpletextfile.txt -o simpletextfile.gpg

But I guess you can't depend on users to have gpg installed so you
have to roll out some unvetted Python tool.


Carl Banks