Originally Posted by
Cerebrito
If you do password protect/encrypt your photos before uploading them to the cloud - how do you do it while making it easy to view in an emergency? Do you use software that is freely and easily available. I'm thinking of a situation where your documents/passport/laptop are lost/stolen, you're in an unfamiliar city and you're trying to get the details, and you somehow get hold of another PC.
The encryption levels on recent versions of Excel and Word - widely available - are surprisingly powerful, so long as you use a good password of say 16 alphanumerics, lower and uppercase and a few non literal characters such as ! and $. You may think that remembering a password that long is tricky but 3 or 4 short words, ideally not in English plus a few joining characters isn't so tricky.
E.g. meRci£poUr99luft (thanks for 99 Luftballons)
has 534 x 10³³ combinations!