Crypt in a sentence as a noun

As an added bonus, git diff/blame still work on the encrypted file.

The public key was in source control, so anyone could encrypt a secret.

For debugging or testing, one could also replace the call to kz_decrypt with a plaintext string.

Don't try to roll your own crypto, especially when you are up against people who know what they are doing.

You go ahead and do that, I will be over here using dm-crypt and PGP to keep my private things private.

If you have plaintext secrets, encrypt them now using this makefile or git-crypt.

If you write the right wrappers, it allows you to encrypt individual settings with a public key.

I have yet to notice any real performance hit for enabling full disk encryption.

It encrypts the entire file instead of individual secrets in the settings file.

"Then you must not have much experience with people in the academic crypto community.

To solve this problem, I wrote git-crypt[1], which uses git's smudge/clean filters to transparently encrypt/decrypt files when you check them in/out.

Encrypted files can't take advantage of many version control features.

If a developer knows the password to encrypt a secret setting, they can decrypt all the other secret settings.

I'd be very worried about special proprietary drives like these that have an encryption/decryption chip.

Encrypt your data locally and then you can store it remotely without worrying about it being accessible to a third party.

Maybe we read different posts, but I didn't get anything like an implication that the author of py-crypt intentionally sabotaged it. What I got was more of a "I'm not taking anything for granted because that would be a good attack vector.

I inadvertently spawned this discussion by pointing out that many open source security projects like Linux, OpenSSL, GnuTLS, libgcrypt, dm-crypt, etc.

The advice for Linux is "Search available installation packages for words encryption and crypt, install any of the packages found and follow its documentation."So...

Being robbed sucks but when it comes to digital possessions there's no reason it needs to suck this much.> I didn’t really trust file encryption because I thought I might lose files because of it and therefore I never enabled Mac OSX’s built-in FileVault hard drive encryption.

Crypt definitions

noun

a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)