Feature Suggestion - scp don't decrypt file at destination unecrypt on copy back switch

Rick Jones rick.jones2 at hp.com
Thu Apr 7 06:30:10 EST 2005


> Of course there is always the script that encrypts files, scp's them and
> it's scp'ing, decrypting partner, but this is what I am trying to avoid.
> 
> Any comments?

aren't the encryption keys different for every invokation of scp?  or can one 
tell scp they keys to use and have the keys be the same for each session? 
otherwise you have a key per file and that would present something of a key 
storage problem wouldn't it?

rick jones




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