Re: Typo Report in Man Page - "fro stdin" and Question

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  From: Shlomi Fish <sh...@sh...>
  Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:48:08 +0300

  [...]

  I've become interested in it because I recently decided to
  use remote backups on http://rsync.net/ and want to keep
  my backups' secure....

I do exactly this and it came in real handy when the 2011 Joplin
tornado trashed my apartment, one of my systems next to my balcony
window and my backup disks but fortunately not my main systems:

http://www.ancell-ent.com/1715_Rex_Ave_127B_Joplin/images/

  Otherwise I wanted to ask a question: what I want to do is
  have the encoded data encrypted by a password, which I
  enter for encrypting and for decrypting, so that I can
  still unpack/decode it if I just have access to the
  encoded data. How can this be achieved while still making
  the encoded data rsync-friendly? Does rsyncrypto support
  something like that? Should I look for something else?

Well, while I didn't need it since the private key was on my
main systems, my last ditch retrival contingency was simply
a printout of the private key which I put copies of elsewhere. 
As an alternative, you could encrypt that with something like
gpg, e.g.:

gpg -c --symmetric --cipher-algo AES --passphrase "supply your own" the-key-file

And then store that on rsync.net.

- Harold