On 29/10/2008, at 4:42 PM, J.C. Roberts wrote:
On Tuesday 28 October 2008, Paul M wrote:
I'm looking for a way to encrypy backup files for secure storage.
Gpg is an obvious candidate, but I'm wondering if there's anything in
base, perhaps a creative use of ssh or some other tool, though not
something liable to break, obviously.
Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
paulm
Yep, everything you need is already in base. see the openssl(1) man
page
Encrypting:
# openssl enc -des3 -e -in plaintext -out cyphertext
Decrypting:
# openssl enc -des3 -d -in cyphertext -out plaintext
Thank you, this is exactly what I'm looking for.
I had a feeling in my bones there was something like this, but on this
day neither google nor apropos were my friend (although if I had spelt
crypt correctly, apropos would have - sorry for the noise). And I
really didnt want to go the gpg path.
Once again, Thanks.
paulm
