Re: streaming over ssh and decrypting a file

2014-09-19 Thread Reco
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014 12:07:22 -0700 Ross Boylan wrote: > Did you mean to go offlist? No, my mistake, sorry. I didn't check 'To:' field. > > Ok, try from the other end - transfer an encrypted file, encrypt your > > backup and compare those. It's a kludge, of course, but worth the > > effort. > I

Re: streaming over ssh and decrypting a file

2014-09-19 Thread Ross Boylan
gpg-agent was already on the system, which I have also been able to reboot. Unfortunately, gpg-agent didn't seem to solve the problem. I used it once successfully, but every other time I tried the transfer would never start. Also I had to use gpg2 to access the agent. I noticed, even when I did

Re: streaming over ssh and decrypting a file

2014-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
Thank you for the pointer. Unfortunately, markov is dying and it is doubtful I can install anything new. The root file system is read-only and /var is full (though I can probably make some room on the latter). Ross On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:

Re: streaming over ssh and decrypting a file

2014-09-18 Thread Reco
Hi. On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 10:09:53 -0700 Ross Boylan wrote: > You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for > user: "Ross Boylan (work) " > 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID xxx created 2014-09-17 (main key ID yyy) Try installing gpg-agent, launching it on markov, and store your private key in it befo

streaming over ssh and decrypting a file

2014-09-18 Thread Ross Boylan
I am trying do something like $ ssh kornak "cat markov/turtle.Lenny00.gpg" | gpg -d - | sudo cmp - /dev/turtle/Lenny00 But that doesn't work, nor do even simpler versions. How can I achieve the goal which is to 1. stream the file from the remote system (kornak) to the local system (markov). 2. de