Openssl supports dozens of ciphers, and your choice is significant in that you must know which cipher was used to encrypt a file when you want to decrypt it later.

How to Encrypt a File Using OpenSSL. Secure Sockets Layer is a network communication protocol that provides security for data at the transmission level. SSL encrypts data connections so that ...

I know I have done this before, but I need a way to take a small text file, and encrypt it, and then be able to decrypt it via the command line. I am totally blanking, because today I have the ...

OpenSSL is a powerful Secure Sockets Layer cryptographic library. Apache uses it for HTTPS encryption, and OpenSSH uses it for SSH encryption. But, you don't have to use it as a library. It's also a ...

The flaw, nicknamed “Heartbleed,” is contained in several versions of OpenSSL, a cryptographic library that enables SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) or TLS (Transport Security Layer) encryption.