How to verify the file was successfully encrypted...

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Wed Jul 12 21:09:56 CEST 2006


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Jonathan Rockway wrote:
> BTW, why are you encrypting these files anyway?  If someone broke into 
> your computer they could just steal the crypto key too.

True, unless the private key isn't kept on the same machine.  Which
also would negate the ability to decrypt the file on the server to
verify that the encryption was successful. :)

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