lendo man openssl
(especialmente a seção ARREGAMENTOS FRASE DO PASSE ):
Several commands accept password arguments, typically using -passin
and -passout for input and output passwords respectively. These allow
the password to be obtained from a variety of sources. Both of these
options take a single argument whose format is described below. If no
password argument is given and a password is required then the user is
prompted to enter one: this will typically be read from the current
terminal with echoing turned off.
pass:password
the actual password is password. Since the password is visible
to utilities (like 'ps' under Unix) this form
should only be used where security is not important.
env:var obtain the password from the environment variable var. Since
the environment of other processes is visible on
certain platforms (e.g. ps under certain Unix OSes)
this option should be used with caution.
file:pathname
the first line of pathname is the password. If the same
pathname argument is supplied to -passin and -passout
arguments then the first line will be used for the input
password and the next line for the output password.
pathname need not refer to a regular file: it could for
example refer to a device or named pipe.
fd:number read the password from the file descriptor number. This
can be used to send the data via a pipe for example.
stdin read the password from standard input.
openssl enc
aceita -pass <arg>
... então, escolha seu argumento na lista acima. por exemplo:
echo -n "secret" | openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt \
-in file1 -out file1.enc \
-pass stdin