On 06.11.2018 10:42, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Hello Kaushal, > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 11:25:47AM +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: >> I am using CentOS 7.5 Linux OS in my setup. I have compressed a folder >> using tar utility tar czvf backupfolder.tar.gz backupfolder. Is there a way >> to encrypt backupfolder.tar.gz using gpg? Are there any best practices to >> use gpg application to encrypt the data. Any help will be highly >> appreciated and i look forward to hearing from you. > > in Debian is there a small utility (`gpg-zip`, found in the `devscripts` > package) which does just that. Maybe it's packaged in CentOS too! > -F
Maybe that's too simple but what about just: gpg --encrypt --recipient $YOU backupfolder.tar.gz Of course after generating the key (gpg --gen-key). Best practices: - use most recent GnuPG, - you can generate keys on another computer (offline?) and export just public parts to the one that does encryption, - you can move decryption keys to a hardware token. Kind regards, Wiktor -- https://metacode.biz/@wiktor _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
