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Date:      Wed, 10 Jul 2002 07:04:48 +0800
From:      "Rafter Man" <rafter@linuxmail.org>
To:        <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Encrypting files
Message-ID:  <20020709230449.5892.qmail@linuxmail.org>

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----- Original Message -----
From: Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
> openssl is in the base system and supports a lot of encryption algorithms
> You can hack up a simple script around it to encrypt files.
> 
> To encrypt a file:
> 
> openssl enc -e <alg> -in <plain file> -out <encrypted file>
> 
> To decrypt a file:
> 
> openssl enc -d <alg> -in <encrypted file > -out <plain file>
> 
> where <alg> can be des, 3des, blowfish, rc4 and others.
> 
> try 'openssl enc -?' for a list of options and algorithms.
> 
> You can try also gpg, it's in the ports

Ok thanks, I will look into that. I just have to encrypt some files, so if someone root's me, he would have to spend XX years cracking them.

Best regards
Rafter
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