[H-GEN] Encrypting a tar backup

[Douglas C]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:

>Just a note, but both of those algorithms will be useless for
>encrypting the original poster's data (or perhaps they could be used
>to encrypt, but they'll, uh, do it too well, if you catch my drift).
>  
>

Hmm, maybe I am incorrect but I thought both of these algorithms were 2 
way (encrypt and decrypt) and 'password' based. *guessing at the drift 
hinting of one-way encryption*

ccrypt might be something else to read about if an implementation of 
neither of these algos is suitable but I know less about this - Ive just 
got an interest in encryption lately and have heard MD5/SHA1 being good 
*sorry if theyre one-way and/or not 'password' based*. :\


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