Brian Wagener
CptanPanic@users.sourceforge.net
project homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/star

sectar: the secure tar.
This program uses the AES encryption algorithm rijndael, to encrypt files.

Run "sectar --help" to see complete details on usage.

Follow these steps to encrypt and decrypt a file:

1) Create key, this creates a key in file keyfile
>sectar -m <keyfile>

2) Encrypt file, this encrypts your doc.txt as doc.txt.star
>star -k keyfile -e doc.txt

3) To decrypt file use.  right now it makes it as doc.txt.star.old
>star -k keyfile -d doc.txt.star

You can also combine steps one and 2 by creating a keyfile on the fly by
turning off interactive mode.
>sectar -ie doc.txt
This creates a file like keyfile.980102 where the number is a timestamp.
This filename also gets embedded into the encrypted archive, so to
unencrypt you can simply do.
>sectar -id doc.txt.star

Hopefully it works.
If it didn't let me know.





