You need to sync files between 2 Unix based systems? Why dont you use SSH to transfer the files crypted between. Here i show you how to generate the Keypair for it:
The first step is to login on our source system and create a private key/public key pair.
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
when you get asked for the directory use the default (/home/<user>/.ssh/id_rsa)
dont enter a passphrase in the next step!
now your keys are generated 🙂 and in your (/home/<user>/.ssh/) directory.
In the next step you should rename the id_rsa.pub to authorized_keys. (before u might safe the id_rsa.pub to a safe place for other uses)
mv id_rsa.pub authorized_keys
After that u need to copy the id_rsa to your destination system and give the the file chmod 0700
chmod 0700 id_rsa