Encryption
Goetz Bock
bock at blacknet.de
Sat Mar 1 20:36:25 UTC 2008
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.
Encryption is probably the only way to secure Kevins data.
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