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Posted by Chris Ward
Chris Ward
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Working on Two-Factor Encryption Program for Linux

Hi Everyone,

I'm working on a program for Linux written in C that allows for two-factor encryption. Because of the design of the program, if you are forced to give up your encryption password, the data would still be safe. This would also be true if someone guessed your password by a brute force attack. The file is first put in a specific format that is impossible to recover without a complete copy of the file. Just guessing the password only gives up half of the file, however, and not in any specific order, either.

Anyway, I'm working on this program in Linux first because I am running Ubuntu on an older PC and some of the commands are very specific to Linux. The commands will be different under other operating systems.

Please let me know if you would be interested in a utility like this to encrypt your files. If there is sufficient interest, I will port the program to OS X and Windows.

Chris