On 7/15/2012 10:11 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
Lousy, though with modern hardware and fast networks, you might not
notice that full files are being transferred any time a minor portion is
changed.

Yep. Encrypt a file with 'gpg -c'. Encrypt it again with 'gpg -c' using the same pass phrase. You'll get a completely different file.

There are projects to address this problem:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsyncrypto/

I just started experimenting with client-side EncFS and running rsync or unison on the underlying native file system. Similar goal, different approach. Sync underneath EncFS compares encrypted file to encrypted file so it doesn't have the encrypt everything overhead that rsyncrypto incurs, but it leaks file metadata like a sieve leaks water.

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Rich P.
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