[plug] Not strictly linux ...

[Jeremy Malcolm]

>         I have a small text file (script actually) that I have on a floppy for
> running vnc and tunneling from windows into my home server (Linux of
> course).  I would like to encrypt this in case I lose the disk (contains
> port numbers and method to get the IP number of my dialup from another
> location etc) , what is the easiest most usable way?  Does not need to
> be totally unbreakable (not that important/risky), but easy to use and
> portable (the method could also be used on similar files I keep on
> another Linux system as well.)

Either GPG with -c option (symmetric cypher rather than public key
encryption) or mount the floppy as a loopback device with encryption
(losetup -e blowfish /dev/loop0 /dev/fd0 ; mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop0 ; mnt
-t ext2 /dev/loop0 /mnt).

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