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Old 05-01-2013
Shell Script for encrypting/decrypting text file
Hello,

I am a newbie in Shell scripting. At the moment, I have a program written in C++ which gives an output file in text format. I would like to write a shell program which can take that output file and encrypt it and later if needed I want to decrypt it.

Could someone please help or suggest me anything?

Thanks a lotSmilie
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Old 05-01-2013
The Unix zip command can encrypt data, and decrypt the archived file. The gpg command also does encryption and decryption, and is stronger (harder to break).
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Old 05-01-2013
You can also use openssl.
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Old 05-01-2013
I am going to try those and let you guys know. Thanks for replying Smilie
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