How to encrypt a file ?

[AA786]

how to encrypt a file
i mean how to applying password?

[Deepak Kulkarni]

Hi,

Use gpg command for the same.

Regards
DK

[Steven Schweda]

GnuPG (gpg) is certainly one possibility.
The right answer may depend on why you want
the file encrypted, and what you intend to do
with it.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Depending of the file, if it's just a text file, you can use the :X commmand in vi.

You can also use the zip -e command:

zip -e test.zip testfile
Enter password:
Verify password:
adding: prueba (stored 0%)


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[Rasheed Tamton]

All the above are valid.

Also you can use the openssl one

Encrypt file.txt to file.out using 256-bit AES
$ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.out
Type password
verfy passwd

Decrypt encrypted file file.out
$ openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc -in file.out
Type passwd to decrypt