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Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding Encryption

2011-06-06 04:14:40
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Understanding Encryption
From: Christian Manal <moenoel AT informatik.uni-bremen DOT de>
To: Tim Gustafson <tjg AT soe.ucsc DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 10:11:05 +0200
Am 27.05.2011 17:02, schrieb Tim Gustafson:
>> one master key for each client wouldn't make that much sense, since you
>> could just the client keys in a safe place. I have one master key for
>> everything. But I don't keep the private key on the director. I have it
>> on a pen drive and (to be extra sure) printed out in a safe on site and
>> on an encrypted pen drive that I always carry with me.
> 
> So, the master key is a second key that can be used to decrypt the backup 
> then.  The people whose severs I'm backing up might not want me to have 
> access to their data, so those users would have to manage their own master 
> keys, correct?

Sorry that I respond so late, I was out of office until now.

That would be correct.


Regards,
Christian Manal

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