miatomi's comment reminds me of:

Preface to Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier Wrote:"There are two kinds of cryptography in this world: cryptography that will stop your kid sister from reading your files, and cryptography that will stop major governments from reading your files. This book is about the latter."

not to start a flamewar about it's efficacy, i use bcrypt most of the time.

i also agree w/ z3bra. archive first, then encrypt.