Dear Peter, dear list, An interesting scenario is when the user stores encrypted files on a server without the server admin and other users having access to the files. This could be implemented on the client side by encrypting the files before sending to the server and decrypting it while receiving - and this could be done by the SSH client. I would like that feature - very much. It would make "automagic" possible - storing encrypted files with autofs for transparent encrypted network file storage. Sounds really awesome. It would be nice if the server would tell the client which key the client used to encode the files - this could be implemented many ways, one approach is to write the public key / fingerprint to the beginning of the file before the actual content or to have a meta file next to the actual file. I see less practical use with password authentication, but a timestamp or the first two characters of the password as the meta would also help the forgetful persons like me. I would really like SFTP/SSHFS take over other network file storage protocols. This could be a killer feature to achieve that. Best wishes: Elmar _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
