Encryption

[Goetz Bock]

On Sat, Mar 01 '08 at 16:50, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> that's a stupid (and incorrect) analogy

yes, it is a stupid analogy, but it's not incorrect.

> if it's a public FTP, then there's nothing to be secured.  if someone is 
> sniffing traffic and the traffic is encrypted, then the attacker merely needs 
> to go to the public FTP and fetch the files themselves.

For me it was so very obviose that OP did not want to encrypt the
traffic but the file.

OP has a public ftp server (ftp.company.com) where he would like to
place the update files. While there everyone can get the file, they
should not be able to _USE_ them. So encryption is what he asked for. 
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