full-disclosure - Q: Linux Command Line Encryption

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0410250833100.5514-100000@server.dimick.net>
From: denis at dimick.net (Denis Dimick)
Subject: Q: Linux Command Line Encryption

Use GPG and keychain to store the key.

On Sun, 24 Oct 2004, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 17:48:26 +0000,
>   Ali Campbell <fdisclosure@...campbell.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > I need a Linux utility which I can use to encrypt a single gzipped file 
> > via the command line. Obviously something open source would be 
> > preferable. I'm not really interested in setting up a whole suite of 
> > stuff with keyfiles and so on, and I don't need a public/private key 
> > setup, just something quick and dirty with a single secret key for 
> > encryption and decryption which is nevertheless reasonably strong.
> 
> If you are only automating encryption and not decryption and not signing
> for integrity, you should probably reconsider using public keys since
> that way you don't have to make a password available to your script.
> 
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