The Cipher Utility

Cipher is a utility that allows you to encrypt/decrypt your files from the command line. This utility supports various command-line parameters, as shown in Table 3.

Table 3: Cipher parameters.

Parameter	Description
/A	Acts on files and folders
/D	Decrypts files and folders
/E	Encrypts files and folders
/F	Forces encryption, even on files already encrypted
/H	Includes system and hidden files
/I	Ignores errors
/K	Creates a new encryption key for the current user
/Q	Runs in silent mode
/S	Performs action on the current folder and all subfolders