Re: [Nolug] encrypted remote filesystem project

You beat me to it! lol

On 8/29/07, Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net> wrote:
>
> First thing that comes to mind would be this http://www.truecrypt.org/
> And once you encrypt the files on your local machine, you can safely use
> any unsafe transfer method.
>
> Petri
>
>
> Joey Kelly wrote:
> > Guys,
> >
> > I have a project I'm working on that goes something like this:
> >
> > I want to rsync my backups somewhere off-site before the next monster
> > hurricane kills us all. I do this all the time at several locations in
> and
> > around floody new Orleans, but I need something out-of-state. I'd like
> to use
> > some-random-webhost-company.com for off-site storage, since they're
> cheap.
> > The problem is, I don't want my data to be human-readable on their
> > easily-cracked server.
> >
> > Here's my ideal solution: I can ssh to the web host's server, no
> problem. I
> > can also mount the server's filesystem via some tool like fish. I want
> to be
> > able to rsync my stuff over to their server, but I want the files I
> place
> > there to be encrypted, let's say with GPG. I want some tool running on
> my
> > desktop here at home to transparently encrypt the files as they are
> being
> > placed on the remote server. I also want rsync to be able to look into
> the
> > encrypted files and see only the unencrypted versions, so that rsync
> will
> > work properly. In other words, I don't want rsync to know anything about
> the
> > fact that those files are encrypted on the remote server.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
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