Enc

This page describes the command line tools for encryption and decryption. Enc is used for various block and stream ciphers using keys based on passwords or explicitly provided. It can also be used for Base64 encoding or decoding.

Synopsis

The basic usage is to specify a ciphername and various options describing the actual task.

$ openssl enc -ciphername [options]

Options

The list of options is rather long.

-in filename

This specifies the input file.

-out filename

This specifies the output file. It will be created or overwritten if all ready existent.