#ccrypt

[howtophil]

Feel like a spy in 10 steps

01. Write super-secret text, save on ramdisk to make sure original vanishes when computer is turned off. 02. Encrypt with ccrypt. 03. Turn binary ccrypt file into ascii text with uuencode. 04. Use wsconv to turn uuencoded, encrypted file into pdb for Dana Alphasmart. 05. Transfer to Dana Alphasmart with pilot-xfer. 06. Carry secret doc on Dana Alphasmart. 07. Have Dana Alphasmart type uuencoded file into another machine. 08. uudecode to binary ccrypt file. 09. Decrypt encrypted file. 10. Fell Like A boss Spy.

[homebrewupdates-blog]

ccrypt version 1.9 for OS X

The formula for ccrypt was recently updated to version 1.9.

To install ccrypt on your Mac, open your Terminal application and run the following commands;

brew update brew install ccrypt

 The updated formula is as follows:

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require 'formula' class Ccrypt < Formula url 'http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/download/ccrypt-1.9.tar.gz' homepage 'http://ccrypt.sourceforge.net/' md5 'c3f78019d7a166dd66f1d4b1390c62c2' def install system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--disable-debug", "--disable-dependency-tracking", "--mandir=#{man}" system "make install" system "make check" end end

Currently ccrypt has no dependencies in homebrew.

See which packages depend on ccrypt.