Jon LaBadie wrote:

Josef,

If I've not followed this thread accurately accept my apologies.

My own personal summary is Greg suggested five combinations
of encryption were easily conceivable and when amanda adds
encryption each of the various combos should be accomodated.

Your view seems to me to be the combo's tagged B, C, and D
offer no benefits over E and thus the amanda user should
be given only the choice of A (no encryption) or E.

I won't comment on the benefits of any combo, just say that
flexibility has been a hallmark of unix from its beginning.
Merely because I or you see no advantage to something does
not mean that no one else will.  Or that someone requirements
might force them to one combo or another.

It seems to me that allowing the flexibility is a win-win
situation.  Aside from your opinion that combos B,C, and D
are redundant or inferior to E, what are your objections
to allowing the amanda user to make their own flexible choice.

My two cents on this topic would be a variation on how the client works;

I am not a crypto genius, or very good with the internals of Amanda.

>>     define dumptype foo {

                Option Key-Autogen #pass an auto generated key to client
                Option Key-Location(/path/to/key) #pass key at path to client

                Option Key(a-key-in brackets)

>>
>>     }

Chris.