On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 03:55:49PM +0100, Daniel Eggert wrote:
> 
> I want to backup some file over email (don't ask me why), so I
> want encode them before sending them -- for security reasons. Is
> there an easy tool to do this (the encryption)?
 
Daniel,

Well there is a tool called PGP, from what I have heard it can be
hard to crack and is completely open source.  It might be what you
are looking for:

http://www.pgpi.org/

Sam Carleton