Chris Robertson wrote:
>
> Rsyncrypto doesn't seem to send the files directly. From the tutorial
> (http://www.linux.com/feature/125322) linked from the home page
> (http://rsyncrypto.lingnu.com/index.php/Home_Page):
>
> "rsyncrypto is designed to be used as a presync option to rsync. That
> is, you first use rsyncrypto on the plain unencrypted files to obtain an
> encrypted directory tree, and you then run rsync to send that encrypted
> tree to a remote system."
>
> The tag line on the Sourceforge page
> (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rsyncrypto) states "rsync friendly file
> encryption". On that same page, the description states "A slightly
> reduced strength bulk encryption. In exchange for the reduced strength,
> you get the ability to rsync the encrypted files, so that local changes
> in the plaintext file will result in (relatively) local changes to the
> cyphertext file."
>
> Perhaps you have a different source of information?
>
> Chris
You are right :-(
I didn't recognise this fact.
br
Matthias
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