[H-GEN] Encrypting a tar backup

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Douglas C <chexsum at optusnet.com.au> writes:

> A
> google.com/linux search for MD5 and/or SHA1 should provide you with
> info about encryption in GNU/Linux. =)

Just a note, but both of those algorithms will be useless for
encrypting the original poster's data (or perhaps they could be used
to encrypt, but they'll, uh, do it too well, if you catch my drift).
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