Free Locknote for Windows offers fast free file encryption

So what message should the linux community take home from this?

"Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah! windows has this cool app and you don't!"

"Take that, dumb linux geeks! In your face!"

Oh yeah, that's awesome...

Wow, I'm really underwhelmed. Text files, enter a password twice every time you save it, enter it again when you open it. How convenient - not! Why not just encrypt your /home partition and enter a passphrase at boot up once and be done with it? Oh yea, because M$ still hasn't learned how to separate program files (which belong in /usr) from data files.

Actually, I used to work for a company that made Unix-based, cross-platform, per-file encryption. [EDIT: It was also transparent to applications, working on-the-fly, and it could use many keys on many different files simultaneously.] It was one of those things that needed only a slight re-think in how you work with your files. The inventor was one of those geniuses who had a great idea, made it work, but needed someone else to explain it to the suits in charge. (Charles Babbage was frustrated by members of Parliament who couldn't grasp that you don't tell the contraption that 2+2=5, you ask it what is 2+2.)

I was glad when the company got bought out. It meant they finally had a good advertising budget, to get the word out.

So you see, herzeleid, the Unix world has had a superior equivalent (says me) for almost 10 years now.

And, before anyone asks, no, I will not name the company or the product, for personal reasons that do not involve any animosity.

> So you see, herzeleid, the Unix world has had a superior equivalent (says me) for almost 10 years now.

I don't doubt that... but it does seem odd that the one we hear about, here on a linux news site, is the one that is not for linux users...

Uh, haven't we had GnuPG and SeaHorse to do per-file encryption for years now?

@Sander:

See my edit in above comment. I left out the most important parts.