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Re:Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data by api on Thursday January 12, 2017 @03:43PM (#13385933)
This illustrates what's wrong with GPG: it's too hard to use. Why so many arguments for a common task? Why aren't the defaults acceptable?
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Re:Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data by RMarcus on Thursday January 12, 2017 @04:04PM (#13386086)
The defaults are acceptable, and will produce a symmetrically encrypted file that can be quickly decrypted on even low-powered ARM cores in a reasonable amount of time.

These suggestions strike a different balance between protection and speed.

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Re:Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data by tptacek on Thursday January 12, 2017 @06:35PM (#13387138)
You can safely just use "gpg -c" to encrypt files.
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