Would someone please point me to the original thread on this? I use tar across ssh & would like to know what the problem with this is, but I can't locate the original discussion in the archive. >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 -- Doug VanLeuven 707-545-6933 (voice) / 707-545-6945 (fax) Chief Engineer, USMM - roamdad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Programmer/Analyst, SCWA - doug@xxxxxxxxxxx Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
