OpenSSL is a tool used for encrypting and decrypting messages, files, and directories. In the preceding example, we used the -base64 scheme. The -d option is used for decryption.
To encrypt a file, we used the -in option, followed by the file that we want to encrypt, and the -out option instructed OpenSSL to store the file. It then stores the encrypted file by the specified name.
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