It's quite common for TCP stream to let corrupted data through, because of 16 bit CRC. Start moving large compressed files (gigabytes) and you'll find that out the bad way.
"Start moving large compressed files (gigabytes) and you'll find that out the bad way."
Not if you do that over SCP / SSL / TLS that said... (and the bottleneck is the network, not the symmetric encryption used once the public/private symmetric key exchange has been made).
So, yeah, everytime I copy big files I'm using scp (small files too actually but it's just out of convenience).
How does random bit flipping and check-summing to fix it work with encryption.
This is actually pretty interesting! How well does encryption handle bit corruption in encrypted data? I would guess it would depend if signature is used and the chaining mode used.
