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

[Gerard J. Cerchio]

Peter Stuge wrote:

> All new file-transfer development should go into sftp instead.


fine with me.

> The encryption "environment" in which scp and sftp runs (provided by
> ssh) works well as designed but is probably not the best choice for
> encrypted disk storage.


Peter I wonder if you can expand on this.  Once the data has been run 
through an encryption what does it matter if it is in transport or static?

thanks,

Gerard