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  • (I edited out the backslashes from the commands, as they're only used in the original document to wrap the commands on two lines) Commented Mar 7, 2019 at 21:56
  • How do you type / enter the password to decrypt the des3 file? I'm assuming you'll be storing and using the decrypted info later, or is entering the password originally the main problem, sending input to the cron script? Commented Mar 9, 2019 at 16:45
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    May I suggest to use another symmetric cipher instead of Triple-DES, as it is known to be weak. Just to give an example: Most recently, this cipher has been officially been removed from the TLS 1.3 spec. An alternative cipher could be AES in GCM mode. Commented Apr 30, 2019 at 6:16