How to Encrypt a File for Secure Email Transmission

⚛️ Want to send a file safely by email? I’ll show you how to use the simple .zip format with a strong passphrase so your private documents stay protected across Windows, Mac, or Linux platforms. ⚛️ Encrypting a file Encrypting a file is easy with 7-Zip. Put the file in a .zip archive and set a passphrase. The result works across Windows, Mac, and Linux. Share the file securely, but give that long-and-strong passphrase separately. Updates, related links, and more discussion: https://askleo.com/6139 🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: https://go.askleo.com/ytsub ✅ Watch next ▶ How End-to-End Encryption Protects Your Messages and Where It Fails ▶ https://youtu.be/Rx39XYgsrQQ Chapters 0:00 How to Encrypt a File 0:47 Password-protecting a zip file encrypts its contents. 1:36 Look at 7ZIP 2:21 File format and password 2:38 Encryption method 3:30 Share the file 4:40 Decrypt the file 5:25 Zip on the command line 5:50 One Zip drawback 6:52 The weak linkS ❤️ My best articles: https://go.askleo.com/best ❤️ My Most Important Article: https://go.askleo.com/number1 More Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com to get your questions answered ☑️ https://newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter. ☑️ https://askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo! ☑️ https://askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo/ for even more! #askleo #file #encryption