[CentOS] Asymmetric encryption for very large tar file

[Brian Mathis]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Brian Mathis
> <brian.mathis+centos at 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


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