On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 10:28:00AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I have used zip and pgp and gpg to encrypt files. But what other ways
> do you suggest?
> 
> Anything in the NetBSD base? (And examples?)

bdes(1) ships with the base install.  (and rot13 and caesar, too.)

$ cat > infile << EOF
squeamish ossifrich
EOF
$ bdes -a < infile > outfile
Enter key: # put some key here
$ hexdump -c outfile
0000000 347       i 346   5   :   0  \0 027 272 215 023 001 210 313 247
0000010   ' 207 261 321 005   K   M   4                                
0000018
$ bdes -a -d < outfile
Enter key: # the same key as above
squeamish ossifrich
$

there's one mechanism.  I'll leave the security implications to others.

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