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Re:The PGP Problem by tptacek on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @08:30AM (#20458690)
No, the problem is that the AES encryption step uses bare AES-CBC. An attacker can flip bits in the ciphertext to make targeted changes to the plaintext. What you want is an authenticated encryption mode, but I don't know that the OpenSSL cli supports any of them.

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