🔒File Encryption Guide

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Now let’s dive into today’s topic.

A guest post!

As always, this is for educational purposes only, and BE CAREFUL when running commands from the terminal on your machines!

Let’s dive in!

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A Practical Guide to File Encryption  

The last post was a brief introduction to what encryption is. This post will present the tools at our  disposal to actually encrypt files. 

What the hell is encryption?

Since all operations will be carried out on the terminal we will make extensive use of Cyber’s post about bash, make sure to read that one first from A to Z so you can actually implement this  material (it’ll also work on Mac). Reading the posts about backups and password managers is  also advised. 

What the hell do I do with Linux?

Introduction to Backups Part I

Cyber's Choice - 1Password

We will be using five tools for file encryption: GPG, Age, Openssl, VeraCrypt and Apple  Macintosh’s built-in disk image creation. There are others, but those are more than enough. We  will do symmetric encryption first, then public-key encryption. So, without further ado… leggo!