I don&#x27;t like the idea of needing to execute a file to decrypt it. That could be abused by someone, adding malicious code to the decryption code.<p>Of course you could inspect the file, but that&#x27;s extra work which many people won&#x27;t bother with.<p>I guess what&#x27;s really needed is a simple encrypted format that&#x27;s easy to decrypt without needing to worry about command line arguments. For example, people are generally satisfied with .tar.* formats and not looking for self extracting compressed formats.