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jhyland87/encrypted-compressed-archive.sh

Created July 3, 2018 19:37
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Generate a GZIP compressed TAR archive thats AES-256 encrypted and password protected
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encrypted-compressed-archive.sh
# Create encrypted folder with password specified in the command (CHANGEME)
tar cz -P -C ./data ./ | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -pass "pass:CHANGEME" -a -A -e -out encrypted-compressed-archive.tar.gz.enc
# Decrypt above file
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -a -A -d -pass "pass:CHANGEME" -in ./encrypted-compressed-archive.tar.gz.enc | tar xz -C ./data
# Same thing as the above, but password isn't specified (which means the password will be requested)
tar cz -P -C ./data ./ | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -a -A -e -out encrypted-compressed-archive.tar.gz.enc
openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -a -A -d -in ./encrypted-compressed-archive.tar.gz.enc | tar xz -C ./data
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