Encrypting a file using OpenSSL

To encrypt a file, run openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -in FILE -out FILE.enc To decrypt, use openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in FILE.enc -out FILE You can use -k option to provide password in commend line itself so it won’t prompt for password. Here is a script i use to take backup boby@hon-pc-01:~$ cat ~/bin/backup-my-files #!/bin/bash cd … Read more