Encrypting with AES-256 is useless if your password is password123 . Use a password manager to generate 16+ character random passwords.
– Losing the password means losing the data. Encryption without the key is irreversible. password protect tar.gz file
GnuPG is the standard tool for encryption on Linux/Unix systems. It uses strong symmetric encryption (AES-256) by default. Encrypting with AES-256 is useless if your password
Use openssl combined with tar :