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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 17, 2007 11:39 PM

Hi there

I applaud your efforts in making these kind of scripts, but I suggest you instead have your passwords on your Linux desktop.

Then you can use the Kgpg program that will decrypt a file and display the result on screen, without making any temporary files.

PS: encryption is like a lock, and the only thing locks give you, is time.

That said, what about the original source file, you obviously delete it, but files can be un-deleted, and partitions can be un-formatted

Better to never ever save the unencrypted file to disk at all.

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