Encrypting Files in Linux

encrypting.txt

#Taken from
#http://askubuntu.com/questions/160253/encrypting-decrypting-a-single-file-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts/160334

Encrypt-->      openssl des3 < youfile.txt > yourfile.txt.des3
Decrypt-->      openssl des3 -d < yourfile.txt.des3 > yourfile.txt.decrypted

#http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16056135/how-to-use-openssl-to-encrypt-decrypt-files?noredirect=1&lq=1 
Encrypt -->     gpg --output encrypted.data --symmetric --cipher-algo AES256 un_encrypted.data
Decrypt -->     gpg --output un_encrypted.data --decrypt encrypted.data