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Created December 8, 2023 04:37
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Commands for encrypting and decrypting a message using SSH's public/private key pair
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encrypt_decrypt.sh
#!/bin/bash
# convert SSH public key to pem format
ssh-keygen -e -m PKCS8 -f git_rsa.pub > git_rsa.pem
# encrypt
openssl rsautl -encrypt -pubin -inkey git_rsa.pem -in message.txt -out message.enc
# decrypt
openssl rsautl -decrypt -inkey git_rsa -in message.enc
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Putting it up here for future Googlers.

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