[RndTbl] how to share/move sensitive data

[Robert Keizer]

Would strongly suggest GPG / PGP (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy ) instead of 7zip.

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Micah Garlich-Miller
<micahgarlichmiller at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I appreciate all the comments and thoughts, thank you.
>
> I'm just going to sum up what happened even though its a bit of a mess.
>
> Basically, the requirements that were given around privacy and for it being
> a non-physical approach evaporated.  The recipient of the data eventually
> came back and said the network in that part of the world is incapable of
> receiving large files, so please mail physical.  So thats whats going to be
> done, a crypted external hard-drive.  I am grateful that this is the
> solution was deemed acceptable because in this particular case it seemed the
> best.
>
> The approach that we were preparing to do was to crypt and chunk using 7-zip
> which looks like a great product for exactly this types of problem.  We were
> then going to make it available via sftp to the recipient.  The reason for
> setting it up that way was so the recipient could take advantage of the
> faster download speeds (as compared to upload).
>
> Thanks again,
> Micah
>
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Tim Lavoie <tim at fractaldragon.net> wrote:
>>
>> If network transfer is an option, tools like rsync or Unison over SSH are
>> your friend. +1 for physical media for bandwidth though.
>>
>>   Tim
>>
>> > On Aug 25, 2016, at 2:37 AM, Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 2016-08-24 Robert Keizer wrote:
>> >> Tar it up and compress it. Scp it.
>> >
>> > Hah, a bit simpler than my way.
>> >
>> > But do keep in mind scp won't resume and if the sender is on a 2Mb
>> > up MTS DSL connection or similar it could take a looooong time to
>> > upload and no guarantee either side's connection or computers wouldn't
>> > go wonky during that time.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure I did the math right, but I calculate at 2Mb/s 400GB would
>> > take 18 *days*??!?
>> >
>> > scp would be good if you chunked the pieces real small, but bad for a
>> > single 400GB file, unless both sides have a great, fast, reliable
>> > pipe.
>> >
>> > You've been spoiled by fast pipes, Rob!!
>> >
>> > P.S. Maybe sneakernet would be a better option if your pipe is small...
>> > Buy 4 128GB SD cards or 1 500GB SSD drive, use split and gpg -c to
>> > chunk and encrypt; throw in a Xpresspost or UPS Express envelope and
>> > ship 1-2 day for around $15-$30.  Figure 1 day to write the data
>> > (especially on slow SD cards, SSD would be waaay faster), 1-2 days en
>> > route. All done in 3 days.  But you'll spend ~$250 on the cards/ssd,
>> > but you can keep it for use another day.
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