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Easy encryption and decryption of directories with GPG
Authored by: bitwiseshiftleft on May 22, '03 04:22:42AM

PGP doesn't encrypt folders. If you try it, you get another folder with a bunch of pgp files in it. That's a PITA to work with, especially for a backup. Furthermore, you might not want the files' names to be known. So basically you'd want to stuff it, then PGP it. This is much more of a pain than my .bashrc addition (see below), although as I mentioned, you'd have to make some small modifications to preserve metadata (easy with hfspax, although hfspax itself is a poorly-documented kludge).



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