Re: [Nolug] encrypted remote filesystem project

yep!! :-)
I even beat Joey's question...

His Post time: 8/29/2007 11:55 PM
My response time: 8/29/2007 11:51 PM

Or perhaps I'm just 4 minutes slow.....

Petri

Chris Jones wrote:
> You beat me to it! lol
>
> On 8/29/07, *Petri Laihonen* <pietu@weblizards.net
> <mailto: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
> <http://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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