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How to Encrypt and Decrypt Files and Directories Using Tar and OpenSSL

Sun, 2016.08.07 - 00:57 — müzso

http://www.tecmint.com/encrypt-decrypt-files-tar-openssl-linux

To package, compress and encrypt:

tar cz path_to_source | openssl enc -e -aes256 -out encrypted.tar.gz

To decrypt, decompress and extract

openssl enc -d -aes256 -in encrypted.tar.gz | tar xz