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# 1  
Old 08-22-2013
HP How to decrypt a file in UNIX?
I have a file which contains encrypted data. Can anyone tell me how to decrypt the file?
# 2  
Old 08-22-2013
You have not provided sufficient information for anybody to be able to help you. For example, do you know what encryption method was used to encrypt the file? Do you know what type of plaintext is in the file? ASCII, binary or what?
# 3  
Old 08-22-2013
I have no idea about the type of encryption or type of text the file contains. We are extracting the file from sfdc,when we extract,we are getting encrypted data. The file content is-
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Last edited by zaxxon; 08-22-2013 at 08:06 AM..
# 4  
Old 08-22-2013
Usually, for decryption, you need a key, a password or alike. If you don't, chances are low.
# 5  
Old 08-22-2013
Your example does not show encrypted, but encoded data. In this case it is base64. Use commands like

Code:
openssl base64 -d <input >output

The openssl command is a little picky about the line length. You have to reformat the text, so that all but the last line are exactly 64 characters long.
# 6  
Old 08-23-2013
I am not getting any data in the output file,its creating empty output file. Please help.
# 7  
Old 08-23-2013
As I said, openssl is a little picky, every encoded line (except the last one) has to be 64 characters long.

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