Re: [openssl-users] A script for hybrid encryption with openssl

2018-12-20 Thread Nick
On 18/12/2018 18:04, Sam Roberts wrote: > Maybe you should look at gpg directly, `gpg --symmetric` uses a passphrase, > which doesn't sound fiddly. Unfortunately that doesn't do what I want: I'm after something using public key encryption (asymmetric, or a hybrid). This is so I don't need to

Re: [openssl-users] A script for hybrid encryption with openssl

2018-12-18 Thread Sam Roberts
On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 3:18 AM Nick wrote: > I should add that I don't really care about the format, or even the use of > openssl - just the ability to tackle large files with the benefits of public > key encryption, in a self-contained way without needing fiddly work deploying > the keys

Re: [openssl-users] A script for hybrid encryption with openssl

2018-12-18 Thread Nick
On 17/12/2018 22:02, Jakob Bohm via openssl-users wrote: > A simpler way is to realize that the formats used by SMIME/CMS (specifically > the PKCS#7 formats) allow almost unlimited file size, and any 2GiB limit is > probably an artifact of either the openssl command line tool or some of the >

Re: [openssl-users] A script for hybrid encryption with openssl

2018-12-17 Thread Jakob Bohm via openssl-users
On 17/12/2018 16:21, Nick wrote: Hello, I've written a script to try and work around openssl's lack of a way to encrypt large files with public key or hybrid cryptography. I gather SMIME works for files < ~ 2.5GB but the current implementation cannot decrypt files larger than this. My use

[openssl-users] A script for hybrid encryption with openssl

2018-12-17 Thread Nick
Hello, I've written a script to try and work around openssl's lack of a way to encrypt large files with public key or hybrid cryptography. I gather SMIME works for files < ~ 2.5GB but the current implementation cannot decrypt files larger than this. My use case is automated server back-ups, for