Hi Shachar, On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:48:58 +0300 Shachar Shemesh <shac...@shemesh.biz> wrote:
> On 06/21/2012 06:06 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote: > >> But despair not. You can achieve the equivalent level of security by > >> encrypting your private key with a password, and storing it using the > >> same provider you store your actual data. At this point in time > >> rsyncrypto does not support decrypting from password protected RSA keys, > >> but such support can be, fairly easily, added. Otherwise, in case of > >> catastrophe, you can simply pull your encrypted key and decrypt is locally. > >> > > Thanks! I think that is also what Harold suggested. > Same end result, give or take. Different mechanism. > > RSA keys can be encrypted via a fairly standard fashion that has nothing > to do with pgp or gpg. Openssl knows how to open such encrypted keys, > and so will a future version of rsyncrypto. I see - thanks for the clarification. > > > > BTW, do you think it would be possible to write an --rsyncable patch for xz > > instead of gzip (see http://tukaani.org/xz/ ; > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xz ) > I think you meant LZMA. Well, LZMA is the general algorithm while xz is my favourite implementation of it. > After spending a couple of minutes reading on > it, my gut feeling is that turning it rsyncable in any meaningful way > will greatly hurt the compression ratios you're used to seeing from it, > negating the reason you wanted to use it to begin with. It achieves > better compression ratios by having a very big lookback buffer (encoded > as a dictionary), which is the exact opposite of rsyncability. I see, OK. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Chuck Norris/etc. Facts - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/ Writing a BitKeeper replacement is probably easier at this point than getting its license changed. — Matt Mackall (who ended up writing a BitKeeper replacement) Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Rsyncrypto-devel mailing list Rsyncrypto-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsyncrypto-devel
