Crypting

Tue Aug 24 18:34:00 GMT 2004

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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