At 20:32 4-4-2002, Gupta, Sanjay wrote:
>I have openssl installed, but I would really appreciate, if you can tell me
>how to use for my requirement.
>My requirement is, I have a simple text file which has some sensitive
>information, and I want encrypt this file this file using some password and
>similarly decrypt the file using the same password. The vi -x filename,
>command will not work because these steps should be done in shell scripts.
>Is it possible to do the same in openssl ?.
"man openssl" should tell you all you need to know.
A few basic examples:
Encrypt a file:
$ openssl des3 -a -salt -in plainfile -out encryptedfile -k mypassword
Decrypt a file:
$ openssl des3 -d -a -salt -in encryptedfile -out plainfile -k
mypassword
HTH,
- Michael
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