Encryption

[Tito]

On Saturday 01 March 2008 22:50:01 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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
> 

Hi,
maybe the problem is to post a file on a public ftp server
in a way that its contents are not public..........?

Ciao,
Tito