Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:04:45 -0500 From: "Dak Ghatikachalam" <dghatikachalam@gmail.com> To: "Mike Tancsa" <mike@sentex.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question:encryption tool Message-ID: <ba29b9b40702061104o450cf888j2267430019aab7bd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <o6lfs25614b6llusikuonlvqo46dq5hvu7@4ax.com> References: <ba29b9b40702051500x1e1b2fe6jd8e05d7058b536b7@mail.gmail.com> <20070205180250.b665f278.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> <ba29b9b40702051521o6fc6877h115623b6627ca834@mail.gmail.com> <o6lfs25614b6llusikuonlvqo46dq5hvu7@4ax.com>
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On 2/5/07, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Feb 2007 18:21:18 -0500, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions > you wrote: > > > >Thanks a lot, Our current backup system is veritas netbackup, and > changing > >that to entire bacula is best thing for me, > > > >But the making the decision about switching to bacula was above my pay > >grade. I hardly see that happen anytime soon. > > > >so they wanted me encrypt these files, that is on the backup location > >before the netbackup scheduler picks up these files. > > If you just want to encrypt the files with a password, openssl works > well and can be found pretty well on any platform. > > [cage]% echo "this is a test" | openssl enc -aes-128-cbc -base64 -k > pass > U2FsdGVkX1+gkWRJo5W7PGBLpilZmlEx3+cKML+32to= > [cage]% > [cage]% > [cage]% echo "U2FsdGVkX1+gkWRJo5W7PGBLpilZmlEx3+cKML+32to=" | openssl > aes-128-cbc -d -base64 -k pass > this is a test > [cage]% > > But you really want to take a look at /usr/ports/security/gnupg. It > seems all a bit confusing at first, but its a much better way to > encrypt data and manage who has access to decode files without having > to use a common passphrase. > > It as well will work across multiple platforms > > Thanks a lot Mike
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