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

[Shlomi F. <sh...@sh...>]

Hi Harold,

sorry for the late response.

On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:52:56 -0500
hg...@an... wrote:

>   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/
> 

Sorry to hear about that.

>   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.
> 

Ah, interesting - I misunderstood you at first and thought you suggested to
encrypt the entire tarball using this method (which would beat the point
because the GPG encryption is not rsync-friendly). Thanks for the tip.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> - Harold
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