On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Steve wrote: > Hi folks, > > The Challenge > > Anyone know of a good way of encrypting a file to an insecure server and > then when downloaded, it is also decrypted ? A strong password istead of > encryption is also possible. > Trying to make the process easy as many users and many files makes for a > time consuming task. > PGP or GPG are the obvious solutions. With both, you can use "conventional encryption" to use a single shared password that your small group of select users would know. The alternative would be to encrypt it to each of their private keys.
> Scenario > > We have many small but sensitive files, and insecure file server that is > backed up and on a network to thousands of users, backup et all. > Sounds like you definately could use batch encryption here. Something you could do with a simple shell script or batch mode. > Ideally, we would be able to upload the file onto the server with one > password between a small number of us, who can download it and decrypt it > simultaneously. > Easily done with pgp or gpg. I would highly recommend acquiring and using them since they're such a usefull tool all around. > Thanks... > > Karma > Mike Parkin Cisco Systems, Inc. Information Security SysAdmin/NetAdmin
