blowfish stream encryption (bdes equivalent)

[Mathias Menzel-Nielsen]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 09:42:53PM +0100, Mathias Menzel-Nielsen wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>I would like to encrpt a stream (a backup which is sent to tape) on the fly.
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>>I found the bdes(1) tool -- but it uses DES only.
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>>Is there any equivalent tool for a stronger algo?
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>>I dont want to create a disk(-image) with gdbe...
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>openssl(1)
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>Kris
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I didn't know openssl could be used from cli so easily,
actually the man page isn't very detailed. (Not a word about decryption 
with -d)
however i found this hints now: 
http://www.madboa.com/geek/openssl/#encrypt-simple

So thanks a  lot.