Re: command line decryption tools

[Sasha <spamit () mail com>]

On Fri, 23 Jan 2004, Steve McGhee wrote:

> does anyone know of a command-line tool to decrypt files that supports
> multiple encryption standards?
>
> im hoping for a general-purpose program that could decrypt AES, DES,
> 3DES, Blowfish, whatever.
>
> i have some encrypted ciphertext (generated by a 3rd party program) and
> its corresponding key, and i was hoping to see if they simply used
> DES/3DES,etc. just out of curiosity.
>
> hoping for a tool on Linux/*BSD/OSX. all i can find right now are libs
> for programming such a tool. i figured it would have been done by now.

Openssl command line tool can encrypt/decrypt using many ciphers. Note
that the interoperability is not that simple as it seams: there are
different modes of operation (ECB, CBC, etc.) and there are many different
ways to convert the password to the key used for encryption.

Regards,
ASK

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