Re: rsync mystery

Chris Davies wrote:
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rsync is encrypted anyway.

Are you sure? I'd infer from the paragraph (Debian man page) "USING
RSYNC-DAEMON FEATURES [...]" that this is not the case:

Rsync supports connecting to a host using a remote shell [...]. This
can be useful if you want to encrypt a daemon-style transfer’s data
[...]

and:

For another way to encrypt a daemon transfer, consider using ssh [...]

Chris
Oh, I don't care about encrypting the data. Its terminally boring. Help yourself! Incremental backups of my inbox? who gives a shit. Its all come in in clear anyway.

The latest drawing I am working on? what the heck. Theres probably only three people in the world it would be of any use to, and I know em all ;-)


Any data that is sensitive is already envcrypted where it is..

No, I am more concerned about malicious attacks on the server..harder to do with rsynch than ssh.
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