On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Brian Mathis brian.mathis+centos@betteradmin.com wrote:
GPG is really what you want to be using for this. OpenSSL is a general toolkit that provide a lot of good functions, but you need to cobble some things together yourself. GPG is meant to handle all of the other parts
of
dealing with files.
I will expand on what someone else mentioned -- asymmetric encryption is not meant for, and has very poor performance for encrypting data, and
also
has a lot of limitations. The correct way to handle this is to create a symmetric key and use that to encrypt the data, then use asymmetric encryption to encrypt only the symmetric key.
GPG takes care of this all internally, so that's what you should be
using.
Will GPG use the intel aes hardware acceleration - in the version available for Centos5?
-- Les Mikesell
It doesn't appear to be available for any program running on CentOS 5. https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=17713
❧ Brian Mathis @orev