Amanda-Users

Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option

2006-01-17 13:20:58
Subject: Re: new feature: client-side, server-side encryption dumptype option
From: Ian Turner <ian AT zmanda DOT com>
To: Greg Troxel <gdt AT ir.bbn DOT com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:16:55 -0800
On Tuesday 17 January 2006 06:10 am, you wrote:
> You're making unwarranted assumptions about other people's situations,
> and telling them what to do without even understanding their needs.
> Even if you do understand, the policy choice is theirs to make.  Some
> people have data that doesn't have that strong a need to be private,
> and for whom availability is far far more important.
>
> Of course, you're free to implement what you want.  The amanda
> project, though, should insist on clean architecture which enables the
> other choices to be implemented without undue pain.

Amen, brother.

--Ian
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