[H-GEN] DVD+RW media for backups

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 05:46:49PM +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> On 2003-11-18, Anthony Towns wrote:
> > Why not just use gpg? (It does symmetric encryption stuff as well as the
> > traditional PGP emaily stuff)
> I'll be using proven off-the-shelf encryption code (probably
> cryptlib) to do the heavy lifting.  My C code will simply be a
> wrapper that sits in the existing pipeline to ensure that what
> goes to tape is encrypted and in such a way that I will have a
> decent chance of extracting it unencrypted should the need for
> that arise.

Heh. That still didn't answer my question. :)

AFAIK, gpg can do all the encryption stuff you might want from the command
line; and I don't think there are any questions about its portability
or reliability... Size could be a factor, I guess. Or other random things.

But you did say sticking with shell was one priority.

So?

Cheers,
aj

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