How to encrypt a PDF file for email

Privacy Questions
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As the title says and which software does everyone recommend if your email provider is Microsoft?

TIA.

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I used to use Peazip but its weird that I dont see it know. Recently I use Picocrypt

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Thank you!

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Somehow I remember Peazip being in the recommended software in the PG site (maybe it was in the PT days?).

Anyway, Picocrypt is recommended. Its what I would use, but my usage scenario has changed and allowed me to use a veracrypt container instead.

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There were a heap of archive tools there which aren’t really encryption tools.

They did specifically ask about PDF, you could use acrobat to password it I guess. Acrobat does have a fully featured 7 day trial, which you can always not register if you don’t plan on doing it a lot. It also works just fine in a VM.

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that’s proprietary though

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hence just use picocrypt or one of the other PG recommended encryption tools.

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If you’re sending the document to someone else though you might not want them to have to install anything.

Evince can decrypt passworded PDFs, so I assume other readers can too.