# openssl-encrypt

**Repository Path**: mirrors_lukechilds/openssl-encrypt

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: openssl-encrypt
- **Description**: OpenSSL encrypt: use openssl to encrypt a file using our best symmetric settings
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Not specified
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-25
- **Last Updated**: 2026-05-17

## Categories & Tags

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## README

# openssl-encrypt:<br>encrypt a file using our best settings

Syntax:

    openssl-encrypt <input file path> [output file path]

Example:

    $ openssl-encrypt example.txt

Output is a new encrypted file:

    example.txt.aes

To decrypt the file:

    $ openssl-decrypt example.txt.aes


## Settings

  * Symmetric encryption, i.e. we use the same password for encryption and decryption.
    We choose this because our users can understand symmetric more easily than asymmetic.

  * Encryption using the aes-256-cbc cipher algorithm.
    We choose this because it's a good balance of strong, fast, and portable.

  * Message digest using SHA-256.
    We choose this because it's the current default of the current openssl tool,
    and we set it explicity because openssl versions have different defaults.

  * Message digest using SHA-256.
    We choose this because it's the current default of the current openssl tool,
    and we set it explicity because openssl versions have different defaults.

  * Salt that is randomly generated.

  * The output file path defaults to the input file path with suffix ".aes".


## Command

The command is:

    openssl aes-256-cbc -salt -md sha256
      -in "example.txt"
      -out "example.txt.aes"


## See also

These commands are similar:

  * [`gpg-encrypt`](https://github.com/SixArm/gpg-encrypt): 
    use GPG to encrypt a file using our best settings.
  
  * [`gpg-decrypt`](https://github.com/SixArm/gpg-decrypt): 
    use GPG to decrypt a file using our best settings.

  * [`openssl-encrypt`](https://github.com/SixArm/openssl-encrypt): 
    use OpenSLL to encrypt a file using our best settings.
  
  * [`openssl-decrypt`](https://github.com/SixArm/openssl-decrypt): 
    use OpenSSL to decrypt a file using our best settings.


## Tracking

  * Command: openssl-encrypt
  * Version: 2.0.0
  * Created: 2017-09-14
  * Updated: 2017-11-27
  * License: GPL
  * Contact: Joel Parker Henderson (joel@joelparkerhenderson.com)