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Re: Encrypting Backups

From: Todd Vierling (tvduh.org)
Date: Tue Sep 30 2003 - 09:49:50 CDT


On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Todd Vierling wrote:

: As others have noted, though, it's not recoverable from a bad tape block due
: to cipher block chaining, session keying (from randomness in the stream),
: and internal compression.

Of course, had my brain parsed the whole message, I would have realized that
you're doing disk-to-disk backup, not disk-to-tape. Sorry for the
assumption here.

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-- Todd Vierling <tvduh.org> <tvpobox.com>