Re: Command Line Encrypt / Decrypt for Win32 and *nix?

From: Drew Cooper [MSFT] (dcoop_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:57:44 -0800

Cipher is only on Windows 2000/XP Pro/Server 2003. And only on NTFS.

For something portable cross-platform, you'll need a 3rd party tool. They
exist. As a Microsoft employee I can't endorse any of them, though. Maybe
someone else can.

If you post on a broader security newsgroup you're likely to get more
responses. 

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"Krish Shenoy[MSFT]" <kshenoy@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Cipher is the command line tool for encryption and decryption on Windows
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=89e5a2f2-e2a6-418f-90bb-345e95c89806&displaylang=en
>
> -- 
> Krish Shenoy[MSFT]
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> "localhost" <primpilus@cohort.ces> wrote in message
> news:7o4g101kbu43o9oi5ur4e48ekd4e02unfp@4ax.com...
> > Looking for any command line tool that will do simple file encryption
> > and decryption.  It should run on Win32, Mac OSX, and *nixes.
> >
> > Thanks.
>
>

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