Grant Zhang wrote: > I agree with Mark. The point of porting many FOSS packages into Open > Solaris is to make people comfortable enough in using the very same > tools in Open Solaris. > > Back to this case, Areca is a backup utility, not a crypto utility. > Encryption is just one feature provided by Areca, although as you > observed, not very strong encryption. It is possible to use Areca to > back up the files totally unencrypted, which is not uncommon in personal > backup space. For folks with strong security needs, encrypt(1) or mac(1) > can still be used on the backups. > > Areca is an active project and a lot of people are using it on Windows > and Linux. Please don't reject it so we have one less choice on OpenSolaris.
Please don't try to ignore the valid architectural and security concerns which Darren and others have raised already. If this Areca backup util is to be integrated, then its crypto support should Do The Right Thing in OpenSolaris rather than merely assume that whatever is being done elsewhere is preferable. Oh, and has anybody informed the Areca project group that their name conflicts with that of a company (Areca Technologies Ltd of Taiwan) ? James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
