Cryptography commands

Cryptography commands are tools one can use to safeguard data through encryption and to decrypt them in turn.

Encryption tools

• gpg - Encrypts data using GNU Privacy Guard.
• mcrypt - Encrypts the specified file.
• mimencode - Encodes the specified binary file to on eof the ASCII encoding formats.
• mpack - Pack a file in MIME format.
• uuencode - Encodes the specified binary file so that it can be transferred over a medium which does not support non-ASCII characters.

Decryption tools

• gpg - Decrypts data using GNU Privacy Guard.
• mdecrypt - Decrypts any file with the .enc suffix, that was encrypted by mcrypt.
• munpack - unpack messages in MIME or split-uuencode format.
• uudecode - Decodes the uuencode coded file.
• uudeview - a powerful decoder for binary files.

See also

• Security