I would like to encrypt a folder with tax info/bank statements. I cannot find anything under a search for KDE Plasma Vault as recommended online. I installed a crypto vault and found Kleopatra in my taskbar. When I try to encrypt a folder, I get a failure notice. The encryption fails because of a “Broken Pipe.”
Here is the diagnostic:
gpg: Note: ‘–ttytype=xterm’ is not considered an option
gpg: Note: ‘–always-trust’ is not considered an option
This is a mess and I’m not smart enough to figure it out. If I try to start Kleopatra from the application launcher, it fails to open with the above noted message. If I try to start Kleopatra from a root terminal, it fails with a different message. If I open it from the terminal as my user, it works. I can encrypt files as a group or encrypt the folder that holds them.
Even when it works, the results are disappointing. I can encrypt files, but a separate file is created and the original files are still open and available. I don’t trust Kleopatra well enough to delete the unencrypted versions of these files. So, what is the point of this all? No security, just an extra “zip” file that I could make another way.
Finally, I encrypted a folder with two files in it, leaving the original unecrypted folder (and the files it contains) in place. I next tried to decrypt the folder. Kleopatra said it was a success but the files did not appear anywhere and the folder itself remained encrypted. BTW, I followed the suggestion in the bug post and quit Kleopatra between these actions, never trying to encrypt or decrypt after a previous action. This is supposed to be the easy way to use encryption. There must be something better.