Fun with OpenSSL encryption

bash_aliases.sh

# Put this somehwere in .bashrc/aliases/etc.
# OpenSSL must be installed -- these are just aliases.
alias enc='openssl enc -e -aes-256-cbc -salt '
alias dec='openssl enc -d -aes-256-cbc '

usage_fun.sh

# encrypted gzipped db dump
mysqldump -uroot DBNAME|enc|gzip -c>db.sql.enc.gz

# decrypted gzipped db dump
gunzip -dc db.sql.enc.gz|dec>db.sql

# decrypted gzipped db dump to import -- sneaky sneaky o_O
gunzip -dc db.sql.enc.gz|dec|mysql -uroot DBNAME

# encrypted tarball
tar czf - blah/|enc > blah.tar.gz.enc

# decrypt encrypted tarball
dec < blah.tar.gz.enc|tar xzf - 

# fun with passwords!
enc < passwords.txt > passwords.txt.enc
dec < passwords.txt.enc > passwords.txt

# ... and so on and so forth ...