SSL secured upload archive with encryption?

[thedaver]

This is a product inquiry...

I'm looking for something that's like some of the remote, web-based file upload/backup services. I don't trust them and I don't trust shared/dedicated servers since local admins can read files.

What I want is a secured/encrypted archive file (like a .ZIP or .PST "file") into which I can upload smaller files via an SSL secured web-page. Password protected access to the archive file is a must and I'd be happy to supply that password every time I had to run the upload procedure.

Basically I want to use this as insurance against file loss for my laptop. Typically I have great network access while I'm on the move but I'm not willing to carry a backup device - even a USB drive.

Plus this adds physical diversity to my backup strategy.

Linux/Apache (LAMP) is my ideal platform.

IDeas? Thanks.

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[zeland]

Your request was quite intersting. I've done this some year ago on Windows for one of customer's accounts & finance dept. One of the shortcomings was that you could only create fixed size volumes. Whenever a user needed more space, you would have to create a bigger volume and move all his/her files over. Searching on yahoo with the terms linux password encrypted disk volume gave me this. A quick browse through shows that you'll be facing the same problem I had with fixed size volumes. Don't know if volume mounting can be integrated with an ftp service.


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[thedaver]

thanks for the comment zeland!

I've found some really neat stuff using linux' "loop-aes" module. However, I don't have a machine that I can re-compile the kernel on locally to meet the AES crypto requirements. Otherwise it would probably kick ass. I'll have to plan a bit better to finish the experiment

Links I found:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/loop-aes/

http://deb.riseup.net/storage/encryption/loop-aes/

And yes, again, you are constrained to a fixed-size "container". This perhaps isn't so bad if you over-shoot initially.

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