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I am new to shell script. In my project there is a requirement to keep all the sensitive data in encrypted format. For to achieve this I need to openssl in command line tool. I tried the following command openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in secrets.txt -out secrets.txt.enc It is not asking me to enter password. And it is not showing anything. Please help me to solve this problem. Clik here to see the screen shot

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  • This question might be better phrased as "How to encrypt a file with AES using OpenSLL" – Tom Jun 25 '17 at 22:00
  • Possible duplicate of [How to use OpenSSL to encrypt/decrypt files?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16056135/how-to-use-openssl-to-encrypt-decrypt-files) – Tom Jun 25 '17 at 22:03

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I had the same issue with openssl not providing any output. Executed the same using winpty and it worked as expected:

$ winpty openssl enc -salt -aes-256-cbc -in file -out file.enc
enter aes-256-cbc encryption password:
Verifying - enter aes-256-cbc encryption password:

$ git --version
git version 2.14.1.windows.1
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If the question is indeed, "How do I encrypt a file with AES" then I think this line might work, found from either here, or here.

openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in secrets.txt -out secrets.txt.enc
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  • Thank you so much Tom for the answer. I am working in windows environment. I executed above command in git bash, didn't get any output. – Sathish Ganesh Jun 27 '17 at 04:35