On Saturday 01 March 2008 22:50:01 Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2008, Goetz Bock wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 01 '08 at 02:10, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > On Friday 29 February 2008, Kevin Holland wrote: > > > > Is there a quick and dirty way to encrypt and decrypt a tar with the > > > > current busybox utilities? > > > > > > there are no encrypt/decrypt utils in busybox > > > > to bad. > > > > > > I'm pulling updates from a public FTP and I would like to secure it. > > > > > > that doesnt really make sense. if it's public ftp, then anyone can fetch > > > it, therefore protecting the content by encryption is pointless. > > > > that made about as much sence as saying: AIDS is a sexualy transmitted > > desease. everyoe is having sexi, so using a condom is pointless. > > that's a stupid (and incorrect) analogy > > > Encryption is probably the only way to secure Kevins data. > > if it's a public FTP, then there's nothing to be secured. if someone is > sniffing traffic and the traffic is encrypted, then the attacker merely needs > to go to the public FTP and fetch the files themselves. > -mike >
Hi, maybe the problem is to post a file on a public ftp server in a way that its contents are not public..........? Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
