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

[Darren Tucker]

Gerard J. Cerchio wrote:
> Damien wrote:
> 
>  > tar zcf - /path/to/whatever | gpg --encrypt -r publickey at 
[...]
> It will also bulk up the data transfer making the data less compressible 
> and larger due to entropy added during encryption.

The tar will compress anyway so that's likely to have little if any impact 
(you will probably get better performance by disabling compression in ssh).

Unless you have a very fast pipe and very slow CPUs then one extra 
symmetric encryption is not likely to be a bottleneck (eg, raw arcfour 
runs at ~45 MByte/sec on a P2/400), and the load is distributed on the 
clients anyway.

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