What I was thinking is of a way maybe to have some password based encryption, where only the users know his password but I didn't find any solution that can work like this. I guess for now we have to settle that the IT admin. Or the Sys admin have access to the encrypted data.
Wassim C. Zaarour Systems & Network Engineer On 2/16/12 12:01 PM, "Thomas Mueller" <tho...@chaschperli.ch> wrote: >Am Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:07:40 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour: > >> Hello, >> >> Currently the data encryption option in Bacula is based on certificates, >> meaning that if the person creating the certificates for the client >> keeps his copy of the certs, he is able to restore and decrypt the data >> without the users approval, since some people want their data >> undecryptable by absolutely anyone but them, I was wondering if there is >> a way to encrypt data using a password that only the client knows, or of >> there any ideas how to achieve this. >> > >let the user himself create the encryption cert and try to use only the >public-key in the sd. > >In theory encryption does just need the public-key. Encrypting needs the >private key. but I don't know if it is possible to provide only the >public key to bacula-sd. > >- Thomas > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning >Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing >also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. >http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ >_______________________________________________ >Bacula-users mailing list >Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
