Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Data Privacy from system administrator with rdiff-backup

[Simon Hobson]

Ryan How wrote:
> Looked at this myself. It depends on whether you trust the remote 
> machine. They could just replace the encfs command, get your 
> password and read your data.

Not specific to this thread, but perhaps the way to do it would be to 
use something like sshfs to mount a remote volume, create a large 
file on that (with an encrypted filesystem in it), and mount that 
locally on a loopback device. I can see there being some overheads, 
but the encrypted filesystem would only ever be "in the clear" on 
your own system where it's mounted - both the network traffic AND the 
contents of the file would be encrypted before leaving your system. 
In fact, using a secure transport (such as sshfs) wouldn't be 
required.

Unless I've missed something very obvious !

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