Encryption

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Sat Mar 1 21:50:01 UTC 2008


On Saturday 01 March 2008, Goetz Bock wrote:
> 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.

that's a stupid (and incorrect) analogy

> Encryption is probably the only way to secure Kevins data.

if it's a public FTP, then there's nothing to be secured.  if someone is 
sniffing traffic and the traffic is encrypted, then the attacker merely needs 
to go to the public FTP and fetch the files themselves.
-mike
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