Hi Jeff openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -md md5 < FOO.aes256 > FOO
did the trick. Thank you very much. -Dieter On Wed, Dec 04, 2019 at 01:12:08PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 1:05 PM Dieter Rauschenberger > <d.rausch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > i have encrypted several documents with > > > > openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -e < FOO > FOO.aes256 > > > > This was serveral years ago before Libressl was invented. Now I wanted > > to decrypt the docs with: > > > > openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d < FOO.aes256 > FOO > > > > This did not work. The password did not work anymore. I had to install > > openssl-1.0.2t via packages. This works: > > > > eopenssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d < FOO.aes256 > FOO > > > > My password is accepted. The document appeared in plaintext. > > Is there a trick to do this with libressl from base? > > OpenSSL changed the hash used in the key derivation function sometime > around OpenSSL 1.0.2. Formerly is was MD5. I believe it was changed to > SHA256. > > I believe the command line option to changed the derivation hash is > -md. You might try adding -md md5 or -md sha1. > > Jeff
