Shameless plug, yes, but how about using Net::SFTP? SFTP runs as a subsystem over a standard SSH connection, so automatically everything you send over the network is encrypted, including both filename and file contents.

This way you can just do something like this: 

    use Net::SFTP;
    my $sftp = Net::SFTP->new("backup_host");
    $sftp->put("local_file", "remote_file");

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Or, what about rsync, using ssh as the rsh replacement? I don't know enough about that to know whether it encrypts filenames going over the network, but I would *guess* that it does, because I believe it just runs over ssh.

If you want to stick w/ the method you're talking about, I think your best option is to do what you suggested: encrypt the filename, then base64-encode it. Considering that you're going to be sending the entire contents of files over the network, adding a couple of bytes per filename isn't going to be the deciding factor in terms of efficiency. :)

In reply to Re: Encrypting a Filename by btrott
in thread Encrypting a Filename by John M. Dlugosz

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