I make a lot of backups onto DVDR these days, and have been unsatisfied with the encryption options. Several years ago I backed up Curiel's home dir for him over the network because he didn't have a burner, and sent him a single encrypted gzipped tar file on a CD (mongo mistake). The CD was damaged and the whole goddam thing was lost, with no other backup. Since then I've been planning on writing a utility to address the problem of making encrypted archives on external media, and a couple of weeks ago wrote hashtar.
http://nitace.bsd.uchicago.edu:8080/hashtar The next thing I'd like to add is an error correcting algorithm, ala http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~emin/source_code/py_ecc/index.html. This would enable recovery even of corrupted files. Also, a GUI frontend would make it quite handy for windows fools, who could pop in a CD, enter a password, and have a virtual file folder. Comments, bugs, suggestions for improvement all welcome, JDH _______________________________________________ Bits mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sugoi.org/mailman/listinfo/bits
