On Sunday 16 April 2006 20:45, Landon Fuller wrote:
> Francisco Reyes wrote:
> > Michel Meyers writes:
> >> Correct: There's encryption of the communication between the File Daemon
> >> and the Storage Daemon but no encryption of the data as it is written to
> >> tape/HDD/CD/DVD. That's still on the todo list.
> >
> > Ok. Thanks for explanation. Perhaps the doc could be updated to read
> > something along thelines of "Encryption of volumes not supported yet".
>
> Using the code in CVS it is possible to encrypt data at the FD, prior to
> being sent to the Storage Daemon. The data will be written,
> pre-encrypted, to the tape/HDD/CD/DVD. There's no encryption support in
> the SD itself yet, though.
>
> This FD encryption will be (as far as I know) in the next release. 

Yes, it *is* definitely in the next "major" release (i.e. 1.40.0).  If there 
are any additional subreleases of 1.38.x (I hope NOT), it will not be there.

> I don't know if I'll have time to implement SD encryption before the next
> release.

Before you implement anything for SD encryption, let's discuss it more in 
detail.

-- 
Best regards,

Kern

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