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? > >
