GPG is the fist utilty that most admins think of when they need to encrypt some data at reast. However, it is not very simple to quickly encrypt a file with a password. OpenSSL makes this much easier. The following command will encrypt a file: $ openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in <FILE> -out <ENCRYPTED-FILE> enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: Verifying - enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: Unencrypt the file with the folloing command:
