Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Crypt backup

[Ben Escoto]

>>>>> Mike Bydalek <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:26:35 -0700

> A suggestion from someone who desperately wants the security of
> box-backup, Duplicity, etc. with the functionality of rdiff-backup,
> would there be a way to implement Duplicity code into rdiff-backup to
> give the option of storing encrypted?

No, not really to my knowledge.  The reverse-diff scheme can work
because the repository side has both the new and old data, and can
compute a new->old diff.  duplicity assumes that the repository is
totally untrusted, so it has neither data in useable form.  The source
side only has the new data and signatures of the old data, so it can
only compute an old->new diff.

There may be some way around this but it would probably be easier just
to keep duplicity up to date.


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Ben Escoto

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