Feature Suggestion - scp don't decrypt file at destination unecrypt

Damien wrote:

> tar zcf - /path/to/whatever | gpg --encrypt -r publickey at
domain.com <http://www.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev> | \
> ssh user at backuphost
<http://www.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev> "dd
of=backup.tar.gz.pgp"

Thanks Damien, but this solution leads to single file recovery problems,
especially given that most users can't tell a tar from a feather. ;)

It will also bulk up the data transfer making the data less compressible
and larger due to entropy added during encryption.

Gerard

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