Dale Amon <amon@xxxxxxx> writes: > Do you know about star? No... googling unearthed http://www.cactus.com/ http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html I guess the second one is more relevant ;-) > I tried to get an extra switch added > to gnutar for it at one point but I don't think it ever > happened. When built with support for it, tar could encrypt > files the same way you bzip2 them. Sorry I don't quite follow... "it" == "encryption" ? Does star allow incremental operations that allow changing a large archive in place? How would you seamlessly encrypt that? Thanks, Hein -- http://hein.roehrig.name - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/