Hi, L.!
Trying to kill the keyboard, L. C. Robinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
produced 1,2K in 32 lines:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
> > Remember though that a single bit error can (and probably[1]
> > will) kill all of the backup after the error.
> Except when using afio, which has fault tolerance, and will encrypt each
> file individually, when fed the name of an encryption program.
I do know that (using afio myself), but you have to make doubly
sure that your encryption algorithm is OK with encrypting
many many plain texts (some of them well-known) with the
same passphrase.
> I
> haven't personally used this feature, but use compression instead, which
... does not have a passphrase and is thus not affected by
that sort of troubles. :-)
-Wolfgang
