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How to Encrypt and Decrypt Files with OpenSSL on Ubuntu and Mac OS X
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dotlayer.com
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10 points
by
eulid55
on Nov 28, 2018
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bdhess
on Nov 28, 2018
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This tutorial has bad advice. Triple DES is nearing obsolescence; birthday attacks are fairly cheap at this point (see
https://sweet32.info
).
OpenSSL supports modern cipher suites like AES+GCM which are much more appropriate for general use.
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OpenSSL supports modern cipher suites like AES+GCM which are much more appropriate for general use.