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From: Andrew DeFaria <Andrew AT DeFaria DOT com>
Subject: Re: Crypting
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:11:41 -0700
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Aug 24 09:11, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>
>> Max Bowsher wrote:
>>
>>> You can't.
>>>
>>> /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/crypt.README
>>
>> Sorry, didn't think there was a readme for just little 'ole crypt. I
>> should have looked.
>>
>> Anyways, this is strange because I recall using crypt in this fashion
>> before - on Cygwin! Did this change?
>
>
> The original code has brought into the Cygwin net distro at some point
> in 2001. Except for the Makefile, nothing else has changed since then.
>
>> Sans crypt(1), how can one encrypt a file...?
>
>
> E.g. `openssl enc -des -in filename -out filename.out
>
> See `man openssl'
>
> Corinna

Thanks. However how do I then decrypt the file? I don't see a decrypt 
command and am lost in the cryptological alphabet soup!

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