What's a simple and portable way to encrypt a .tar.gz?
by TheJooomes from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MNFP)
I see a lot of talk about using gpg to encrypt .tar.gz files. That method looks really complex, and I tried it and it looks like it generated keys in my home dir without asking for a passphrase. I'm probably using it wrong. It's confusing.
I want to SCP a .tar.gz file to my server as a backup, but all the drives on the server are unencrypted. The server is run by me and I'm the only person who has SSH login access, but I would still prefer my .tar.gz backups to be encrypted. I also don't want to be restricted to decrypting .tar.gz files on the PC that encrypted them. I want something portable, something that I can decrypt simply by giving it the passphrase, whatever computer I might be using.
This whole setup is pretty amateur, nothing that would get me into trouble if some government entity got access. I just have some stuff I wanna keep private from friends and family. I know it's unlikely that anyone but me would take the server off the wall to inspect the drives, but I still wanna protect against it.
I want to SCP a .tar.gz file to my server as a backup, but all the drives on the server are unencrypted. The server is run by me and I'm the only person who has SSH login access, but I would still prefer my .tar.gz backups to be encrypted. I also don't want to be restricted to decrypting .tar.gz files on the PC that encrypted them. I want something portable, something that I can decrypt simply by giving it the passphrase, whatever computer I might be using.
This whole setup is pretty amateur, nothing that would get me into trouble if some government entity got access. I just have some stuff I wanna keep private from friends and family. I know it's unlikely that anyone but me would take the server off the wall to inspect the drives, but I still wanna protect against it.