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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root? | ||
| Date: | Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:30:38 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20100103103003.0bcfb745@digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root? by Harry Putnam |
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| 1 | On Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:12:29 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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| 3 | > I have an encfs encrpted partition on my home machine.. However I want |
| 4 | > a back up offsite. |
| 5 | > |
| 6 | > The encrypted partition would be mounted, the contents tarred/gzipped, |
| 7 | > mcrypt'ed on home machine then scp'ed to the remote for offsite |
| 8 | > storage once a week or so, overwriting each time. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Why not just tar up the underlying encfs partition? The data is already |
| 11 | encrypted, what's the point of decrypting it to encrypt it again? That |
| 12 | way you don't need to rely on any encryption software on the remote |
| 13 | computer. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | |
| 16 | -- |
| 17 | Neil Bothwick |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Puns are bad, but poetry is verse... |
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| Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root? | felix@×××××××.com |
| [gentoo-user] Re: [OT crypto] How to encrypt a directory without root? | Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> |