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Answer by Baptiste Mille-Mathias for How to encrypt a file or directory in...

I don't have all your requirements but if you want to encrypt transparently data at rest on disk have a look to fscrypt.This is a tool implemented in kernel and in a command-line tool that permit to...

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Answer by Ron de Jong for How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

Use FinalCrypt - Unbreakable One-Time Pad OpenSource File / Directory Encryption (GUI & CLI)It creates One-Time Pad keys by itselfjava -cp FinalCrypt.jar rdj/CLUI --encrypt --password-prompt -k...

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Answer by S0AndS0 for How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

May not be popular but I've been working on a project to encrypt/decrypt anything with minimal user interaction through the use of a few Bash scripts. Here's a link to the Hak5 post that explains setup...

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Answer by infoclogged for How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

If highest level of security is not a big problem ( the man page of zip says, that the encryption algorithm used by zipfile utilities are weaker than PGP), then I prefer zip and unzip. It zips my...

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Answer by Tom for How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

This is my method using openssl and tarOpen Encrypted Directory:openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -in ~/vault.tar.gz.dat | tar xz; thunar ~/vaultLock Encrypted Directory:tar cz vault/ | openssl enc...

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Answer by Matt for How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

I personally use aescrypt mostly. aescrypt -e "File"and decrypt: aescrypt -d "File"Or there's mcrypt: mcrypt "File"and decrypt: mcrypt -d "File"And for a directory , I suggest tar'ing the dir, and...

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Answer by celebdor for How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

I think it would be GnuPG. The syntax for files and directories differs though.EncryptionFor files (outputs filename.gpg):gpg -c filenameFor directories:gpg-zip -c -o file.gpg dirnameDecryptionFor...

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Answer by jet for How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

with opensslopenssl des3 -salt -in unencrypted-data.tar -out encrypted-data.tar.des3Decrypt:openssl des3 -d -salt -in encrypted-data.tar.des3 -out unencrypted-data.tarencrypt with AESaescrypt -e -p...

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Answer by slhck for How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

Try GnuPG.To encrypt: gpg -c filenameTo decrypt: gpg filename.gpg

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How to encrypt a file or directory in Linux?

What's the most popular command to do such things as encrypting a file or directory in terminal in Linux?

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