Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file backup

2020-01-05 Thread Philippe Meunier
Aham Brahmasmi wrote: >If I am not wrong, the verification should fail. If you have a system that uses private / public signing keys then, yes, you're correct. But: 1) In my opinion it's probably overkill for just doing backups. As I said in my previous email, just using symmetric encryption an

Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file backup

2020-01-04 Thread Roderick
On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Philippe Meunier wrote: > Roderick wrote: > >I do use openssl for encrypting files in my laptop. > > So do I. I only encrypt the 0.001% of files that are really important and > then those files are encrypted on my computer too, not just on the backup > system [...] I have

Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file backup

2020-01-04 Thread Aham Brahmasmi
Namaste Philippe, Merci beaucoup for your reply. > Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2020 at 3:54 PM > From: "Philippe Meunier" > To: "Aham Brahmasmi" > Cc: misc@openbsd.org, Roderick > Subject: Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file

Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file backup

2020-01-04 Thread Philippe Meunier
>Aham Brahmasmi wrote: >> In my limited understanding, to securely backup and restore a file, the >> steps are: >> >> To backup: >> Step 1 - encrypt the file using a tool >> Step 2 - sign the encrypted file using a tool >> Step 3 - backup the signature and the encrypted file >> >> To restore: >>

Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file backup

2020-01-03 Thread Aham Brahmasmi
Namaste Rodrigo, Thank you for your reply. > Sent: Friday, January 03, 2020 at 5:43 PM > From: "Roderick" > To: "Aham Brahmasmi" > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file > backup > >

Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file backup

2020-01-03 Thread Roderick
I would perhaps write a script that calls openssl for encripting and signing, rsync to send new files, something simple. I do use openssl for encrypting files in my laptop. Rodrigo On Thu, 2 Jan 2020, Aham Brahmasmi wrote: > Namaste misc, > > What tool(s) would you recommend to encrypt and

Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file backup

2020-01-03 Thread Aham Brahmasmi
Hallo Claus, Danke for your reply. > Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2020 at 6:38 PM > From: "Claus Assmann" > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file > backup > > Maybe duplicity? It's available as

Re: Request for recommendation - encryption and signature for file backup

2020-01-02 Thread Claus Assmann
Maybe duplicity? It's available as package (not sure whether it does signing). -- Address is valid for this mailing list only.