Re: [Full-Disclosure] Q: Linux Command Line Encryption

["Joe Szilagyi" <js@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

What's the syntax to decrypt using this?

Regards,
Joe





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Ali Campbell" <fdisclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<full-disclosure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Q: Linux Command Line Encryption


At 01:48 PM 22/10/2004, Ali Campbell wrote:
>I need a Linux utility which I can use to encrypt a single gzipped file
>via the command line. Obviously something open source would be preferable.
>I'm not really interested in setting up a whole suite of stuff with
>keyfiles and so on, and I don't need a public/private key setup, just
>something quick and dirty with a single secret key for encryption and
>decryption which is nevertheless reasonably strong.

Whats wrong with openssl ?

openssl des3 -in test.txt -out test.txt.enc

or

openssl aes-256-cbc -in test.txt -out test.txt.enc

This is only as strong as your passphrase.  Using something like GPG has
other advantages since the private key can be kept in a separate location
from the encrypted file.


         ---Mike

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