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How to Encrypt and Decrypt Files with OpenSSL on Ubuntu and Mac OS X (dotlayer.com)
10 points by eulid55 on Nov 28, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


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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