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Compress the "folder" folder with tar and then encrypt it with the symmetric encryption method aes-256-cbc using OpenSSL and save it as a file:

tar cz folder/ | openssl aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -e > folder.tar.gz.enc

Decrypt and unpack the file again:

cat folder.tar.gz.enc | openssl aes-256-cbc -pbkdf2 -d | tar xzv

Last modified: Dec. 15, 2022

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