Re: Crypting

[Andrew DeFaria <Andrew at DeFaria dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Aug 24 09:11, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
> > Max Bowsher wrote:
> >
> > > You can't.
> > >
> > > /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/crypt.README
> >
> > Sorry, didn't think there was a readme for just little 'ole crypt. I
> > should have looked.
> >
> > Anyways, this is strange because I recall using crypt in this fashion
> > before - on Cygwin! Did this change?
>
>
> The original code has brought into the Cygwin net distro at some point
> in 2001. Except for the Makefile, nothing else has changed since then.
>
> > Sans crypt(1), how can one encrypt a file...?
>
>
> E.g. `openssl enc -des -in filename -out filename.out
>
> See `man openssl'
>
> Corinna

Thanks. However how do I then decrypt the file? I don't see a decrypt 
command and am lost in the cryptological alphabet soup!

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