On Fri, 2016-01-08 at 15:02 +0100, Swâmi Petaramesh wrote: > Le vendredi 8 janvier 2016, 15:00:46 Christoph Anton Mitterer a écrit > : > > Shouldn't any crypto that can read from stdin and write to stdout > > do > > that? > > E.g. simply ssh. > > > > hostA$ btrfs send foo | ssh hostB btrfs receive bar > > It works, I do this on a regular basis… One should perhaps only ask some SSH experts, whether their crypto is actually safe for such use case. I mean depending on what kind of data is send (e.g. often repeating patterns and so on) some crypto schemas may be more pron to statistical attacks than other. But I wouldn't see much problems... ssh has rather problems with statistical attacks when measuring keystroke times... Cheers, Chris.
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