Cryptography commands
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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.