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openssl

OpenSSL is a cryptography toolkit implementing the Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) network protocol, as well as related cryptography standards.

man openssl

Quick References​

Quick references to my common openssl commands

Encrypt / Decrypt Files​

Encrypting files:

openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in input_file.txt -out output_file.txt.enc

Decrypting files:

openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -salt -in input_file.txt.enc -out output_file.txt

Generate random string​

openssl rand -base64 12

openssl rand -hex 12