lightweight encryption of text file

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.691.1263033916.28905.python-list at python.org>,
Daniel Fetchinson  <fetchinson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>Well, that's sort of true about learning a complex API :) But it's
>also true that I'm not storing anything really valuable in the file
>but still wouldn't want to leave it lying around in plain text. In
>case I lose the laptop with the file I seriously doubt anybody who
>finds it will go through each and every file and try to find what's in
>it, even though they look like data files and there is no hint what so
>ever that any one of them contains encrypted info. If they see a text
>file, well, that can give them ideas, so let's encrypt a little bit.

One reason I like OSX is that it's dirt-simple to encrypt my home dir.
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