yet another rsync encryption program

[Eric S. Johansson]

Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>> Matt McCutchen wrote:
>>> bOn Mon, 2007-12-24 at 18:34 -0500, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>>>> I'd love for the remote backup to be encrypted locally so one could
>>>> backup to a hostile host.
>>>
>>> That limits your options.  
>>
>> one would think.  For now, lets go with the plaintext push form of 
>> rsnapshot. as for encryption, I think it would be possible (assuming 
>> mods to rsync) to do rsync encrypted copies. 

http://murk.sourceforge.net/

Its an encryption program, for the Unix command line, that is setup to allow 
rsync to transfer the encrypted output files with some efficiency.


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this is an interesting variant on encrypting data and without totally negating 
the value of rsync.  yes, the cryptosystem is weakened but for many folks, it's 
probably good enough.


---eric