Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric vs. key

[Kenneth Loafman]

That would be very helpful.  I'm open to any help that I can get.

...Thanks,
...Ken

address@hidden wrote:
> Good point ... thanks Georg.
> 
> Maybe we should phrase a Mini-Howto for the Website. Or even better the
> online help, similar to the chapter TIME, some chapter KEYS vs. PASSPHRASE.
> @ken: would you like that?
> 
> ..ede
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am asking myself the pro's and con's of using symmetric encryption
>>> versus the use of keys with duplicity.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> I am using duplicity with keys. In fact this is the main use of my GPG
>> keys. ;-)
>>
>> The nice thing about asymetric encryption is that - as long as you don't
>> decrypt you don't need to store or pass a passphrase at all. So I can use
>> the same public key for multiple machines and even on that machines I
>> don't really trust.
>>
>> Of course when you want to restore you need to provide it.
>>
>> Unfourtunately with current versions up from 0.5.12 duplicity also asks
>> during normal incremental backups for the private key, but this can be
>> fixed when the archive directory holds the hash of the remote manifest
>> (see recent thread on "Unnecessarily asking for passphrase on incremental
>> backup").
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>    Georg
>>
>>
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