Take the tour ×  I intend to use cloud storage for some of my
application logs. These logs might contain confidential business
data, so I would like to encrypt them prior to upload.  For
security reasons, I prefer using large symmetric key
cryptography over simple password encryption.  Do you know any
Fast, reliable, open source encryption tool for ubuntu?
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down vote accepted  As you asked for a symmetric solution:  I
would advise using AES as the symmetric crypto algorithm. On
Ubuntu you could use aespipe (should be in the official
repository) or AES Crypt. That leaves you with the task of
managing your secret key(s). If you can store them secure
locally, everything is fine.  If you want to store your secrect
keys encrypted, i would use an asymmetric tool like GPG as SvenW
suggested. As GPG can use AES as symmetric backend, there is no
need to do the AES stuff yourself. Just let GPG do that.
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