[H-GEN] Encrypting a tar backup

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org> writes:

> Well, Jason's comments on zip -e notwithstanding,

I must say I'm quite glad no-one has taken me up on my bet and sent me
a zip-e encrypted file, since the copy of the crypt breaker's
workbench I downloaded does not compile on my system (since it seems
to make 1984-ish assumptions about stuff like curses...).

That said, the nice thing about setting up a little PKI and using
public-key encryption on your backups, etc is that you do *NOT* need
to supply a passphrase at encryption time, only decryption.

jason
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