Andreas Schuldei wrote: > > I used ssh exactly in the (just now shown) insecure way: I transfered big files over an encrypted scp tunnel to my computer at home using cron. > > Now I need an other way to shovel my 20-30Mbyte per night over the net. > <snip> Why not use the way that was proposed as the alternative: ssh peer "tar cfz - files" > files.tar.gz tar tfz files.tar | grep for unusual files if nothing is found, untar and rm the tar.gz file. Or use ssh2. Marc -- Marc Mutz <Marc@xxxxxxxx> http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/ University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH) Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/