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I've been hunting for the answer to this, but I have not found it. When I back up my laptop using Time Machine to a remote Time Machine server (Time Capsule, or Mac Mini with an external drive), is the data on the network encrypted? Note that I don't care about the encryption of the data on the hard drives at either end, just about the ethernet/wifi in the middle. |
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Short answer, no it's not. As with most of the file transfer protocols(SMB, FTP, NFS) it transfers data in plain text. |
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If the WiFi has encryption, it is encrypted over-the-air. However, wired ethernet is not encrypted or protected in any way. |
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Your password for authentication may be encrypted depending on what you are authenticating to, but the AFP transfer is not encrypted. |
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