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You can get a list of the available cipher commands with

    openssl list-cipher-commands
A description is available if you do
    man enc
Doesn't seem to be any reason you couldn't use AES-256-CBC if you wanted to. Not a security expert though, so other than speed concerns, I don't know the repercussions of doing so.
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