sftp-server file encryption

Peter Moody
Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:46:13 -0000

Why not just encrypt the files before you upload them?

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018, 08:20 J?rgen Weber <juergen at jwi.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wonder if sftp-server could encrypt files before writing to disc. This
> would make sshd a poor man's alternative for an encrypting filesystem
on a
> server.
>
> How to get the crypto key from a client to be used by sftp-server? Upload
> the key to a /well/defined/key.pem virtual location? Or can you access the
> ssh client certificate from sftp-server?
>
> Can sftp-server call a filter?
> Or would one write a sftp-server replacement?
>
> Juergen
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