Maya’s client praised her for not exposing their data. She now pre-encrypts every sensitive archive before it leaves her laptop.
For those willing to trade a few extra keystrokes for better security hygiene, the industry standard is actually to skip the tar password entirely and use GPG (GNU Privacy Guard). password protect tar.gz file
zip --encrypt -r secured_backup.zip my_folder/ Title: The Art of the Invisible Lock: A
apt install gnupg).