2004-Sep-01
You can password-protect a tarball or any file with gpg, for example:
cat xs.c | gpg -c > xs.c.encrypted-with-password(Enter a passphrase twice.) Then on another system decrypt, like:
cat xs.c.encrypted-with-password | gpg --decrypt
The free zip/unzip also supports password protection using a "relatively weak encryption".
Because I am the pkg-bug-handler this week, I assigned PRs to people. I fixed a few and closed some myself.
Installed pkgsrc/misc/openoffice-linux (under Linux) and sent suggestions to tech-pkg.