Thursday, June 14, 2012

Encrypt and Decrypt files in ubuntu

ccrypt is a utility for encrypting and decrypting files. It is based on the Rijndael cipher, which is the U.S. government's chosen candidate for the Advanced Encryption Standard . This cipher is believed to provide very strong security.
To install it run the following command:
  • " sudo apt-get install ccrypt "
To Encrypt the file run following command:
  • " ccrypt filename "
You will be prompted to submit desired password to encrypt file which will be required to decrypt the file.

To Decrypt run following command:
  • " ccrypt -d filename "
Enjoy !!!

1 comment:

  1. he idea of encrypting files to secure your data using different encryption algorithm is getting very popular these days among the computer users.

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