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Greggory Shaw

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Encrypting Home Directory ?
« on: July 24, 2014, 08:31:51 am »
Does eCS use the Home directory on startup ?

I've been playing around with rsync and AES, stunnel, others.

And AES with rsync, stunnel you need control of both points.

Sftp from Openssh ?

Thanks

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« Last Edit: July 24, 2014, 08:37:31 am by Greggory Shaw »

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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2014, 09:48:38 am »
The best way to have your home directory encrypted is to use AEFS. NDCrypt with NetDrive may also be an option, but in this case you would need to pay for NetDrive at first, and for NDCrypt itself, at second.

It also may be reasonable to move your desktop directory in your home directory, so that it'd be encrypted too.

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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2014, 06:50:20 am »
The best way to have your home directory encrypted is to use AEFS

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Thanks that what I was planning on doing and testing it with Rsync too. I'm going to try and get Paul to port a better solution.

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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2014, 07:14:41 am »
The best way to have your home directory encrypted is to use AEFS

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Thanks that what I was planning on doing and testing it with Rsync too. I'm going to try and get Paul to port a better solution.

Why rsync?

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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2014, 07:49:07 am »

Why rsync?

I have a OS/2 server with a overlay of eCS.

I use a hot key for popup and drag and drop files on a CMD file of rsync for a Dropbox on my server and my public folder.

And stunnel and rsync for backups. But there's not a good way to encrypt data and rsync it to a third party server on OS/2.  So, Im going to check out how many files change on an encrypted AES directory and rsync it. If you know of a better way, please tell. 

I would like to add this to the OS/2 coummity - for offsite backups !
 
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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2014, 08:03:31 am »

Why rsync?

I have a OS/2 server with a overlay of eCS.

I use a hot key for popup and drag and drop files on a CMD file of rsync for a Dropbox on my server and my public folder.

And stunnel and rsync for backups. But there's not a good way to encrypt data and rsync it to a third party server on OS/2.  So, Im going to check out how many files change on an encrypted AES directory and rsync it. If you know of a better way, please tell. 

I would like to add this to the OS/2 coummity.
 
http://duplicity.nongnu.org


Greggory

The easiest way to transfer data with rsync securely is rsync over ssh, of course.

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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #6 on: July 27, 2014, 08:08:14 am »

The easiest way to transfer data with rsync securely is rsync over ssh, of course.

Ok, smarty pants !

The Os/2 versions of Rsync and ssh don't work together !  And even if they did data wouldn't be encrypted at the end point ?

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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #7 on: July 27, 2014, 08:18:34 am »
The Os/2 versions of Rsync and ssh don't work together !

Are you sure? Have you tried?

If that's true, that's stupid and should be fixed.

And even if they did data wouldn't be encrypted at the end point ?

Oh. Well sorry, I thought you trust the remote server, but don't trust the data channel. It's partly hard to understand what you say for me.

If you don't trust the remote, you can indeed use an AEFS container or a passworded RAR archive.
But you will have to transfer the whole container/archive even if you change one byte in it (at least that's how good encryption should work), as it changes fully. Therefore I don't get where are you going to apply rsync in this case.

Or are you going to encrypt each file separately?
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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #8 on: July 27, 2014, 08:25:51 am »
The Os/2 versions of Rsync and ssh don't work together !

Are you sure? Have you tried?

If that's true, that's stupid and should be fixed.

I'm the one that asked Paul for a different build and there's a 30+ message thread on it on the Yahoo group.

And even if they did data wouldn't be encrypted at the end point ? But there's not a good way to encrypt data and rsync it to a third party server on OS/2.


This would take care of everything:

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #9 on: July 27, 2014, 08:33:23 am »
Yahoo group.

I don't read newsgroups.

This would take care of everything:

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/

Well, if you know what to do, then I do completely misunderstand what's this thread for.

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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #10 on: July 27, 2014, 08:52:13 am »

Well, if you know what to do, then I do completely misunderstand what's this thread for.

Because you didn't completely read anyone of my txt :) starting with I don't know what rsync and ssh does :)

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I'm going to try and get Paul to port a better solution.

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
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Re: Encrypting Home Directory ?
« Reply #11 on: July 27, 2014, 09:12:00 am »
Because you didn't completely read anyone of my txt :) starting with I don't know what rsync and ssh does :)

Excuse me, can you please rephrase yourself?