Practicalities, implementation, and weaknesses of simple symmetric encryption for plain text files

For about 20 years, I’ve been using gnupg to encrypt a plain-text file containing my passwords. (The actual per-site passwords are generated using a hash function.) It’s worked OK for me, but gnupg is a very heavy-weight system that’s real… Continue reading Practicalities, implementation, and weaknesses of simple symmetric encryption for plain text files