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Date:      Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:23:01 +0100
From:      Mathias Menzel-Nielsen <matze@matzsoft.de>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: blowfish stream encryption (bdes equivalent)
Message-ID:  <43D2B445.8080205@matzsoft.de>
In-Reply-To: <20060121214944.GC85143@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <43D29CCD.1080701@matzsoft.de> <20060121214944.GC85143@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:42:53PM +0100, Mathias Menzel-Nielsen wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>I would like to encrpt a stream (a backup which is sent to tape) on the fly.
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>>I found the bdes(1) tool -- but it uses DES only.
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>>Is there any equivalent tool for a stronger algo?
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>>I dont want to create a disk(-image) with gdbe...
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>
>openssl(1)
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>Kris
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I didn't know openssl could be used from cli so easily,
actually the man page isn't very detailed. (Not a word about decryption 
with -d)
however i found this hints now: 
http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#encrypt-simple

So thanks a  lot.



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