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# 1  
Old 03-08-2006
encrypting files in ksh
I have an ascii file that I want to encrypt and save. I have seen this done before, but cannot remember how, nor can I find anything in any of my manuals or online help.

Any ideas how to do this?

Thanks,
Henry
# 2  
Old 03-08-2006
The crypt command perhaps?
# 3  
Old 03-08-2006
That is what I thought, but there is no crypt command in my path. the man page makes it look like crypt is a c function. I need to do this from the ksh command line.
# 4  
Old 03-08-2006
/usr/bin/crypt under Solaris
# 5  
Old 03-10-2006
If You have time, try and install http://www.openssl.org
# 6  
Old 07-20-2006
Can I execute an encrypted script as it is ?
I created a shell script and I encrypted it and want to executed the shell script with the encrypted file.
I tried to do that and it gave me a segmentation fault...

Thanks
# 7  
Old 07-24-2006
No, you cannot. It has to be decrypted first. You might be able to do something clever with asking for a password then executing the decrypted program...
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