Hi Francesco, Thanks for the reply. I did the below
[centos]# ls helloworld/ check_cpu_perf.sh check_mem.pl jdk-8u162-linux-x64.rpm [centos]# gpg-zip --encrypt --output hellogpg --gpg-args -r kaushal helloworld /usr/bin/tar: kaushal: Cannot stat: No such file or directory gpg: missing argument for option "-r" [centos]# Am i missing something? Thanks Wiktor, I'll check it out. Best Regards, Kaushal On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 4:52 PM Wiktor Kwapisiewicz <wik...@metacode.biz> wrote: > On 06.11.2018 10:42, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > Hello Kaushal, > > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:25:47AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: > >> I am using CentOS 7.5 Linux OS in my setup. I have compressed a folder > >> using tar utility tar czvf backupfolder.tar.gz backupfolder. Is there a > way > >> to encrypt backupfolder.tar.gz using gpg? Are there any best practices > to > >> use gpg application to encrypt the data. Any help will be highly > >> appreciated and i look forward to hearing from you. > > > > in Debian is there a small utility (`gpg-zip`, found in the `devscripts` > > package) which does just that. Maybe it's packaged in CentOS too! > > -F > > Maybe that's too simple but what about just: > > gpg --encrypt --recipient $YOU backupfolder.tar.gz > > Of course after generating the key (gpg --gen-key). > > Best practices: > - use most recent GnuPG, > - you can generate keys on another computer (offline?) and export just > public parts to the one that does encryption, > - you can move decryption keys to a hardware token. > > Kind regards, > Wiktor > > -- > https://metacode.biz/@wiktor >
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