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api on Jan 12, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using GPG to Encrypt Your Data

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?

RMarcus on Jan 12, 2017 | [–]

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.

tptacek on Jan 12, 2017 | [–]

You can safely just use "gpg -c" to encrypt files.

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