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Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Storage Daemon based encryption

2009-03-14 16:12:41
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] [Bacula-devel] Feature Request: Storage Daemon based encryption
From: Kern Sibbald <kern AT sibbald DOT com>
To: bacula-devel AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:01:19 +0100
On Friday 13 March 2009 19:24:47 Landon Fuller wrote:
> On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Steve Polyack wrote:
> >      Feature Request Form
> >
> > Item n:   Storage Daemon based encryption
> >  Origin: Steve Polyack <korvus at comcast dot net>
> >  Date:   16 February 2009
> >  Status: new
> >
> >  What:   The ability to encrypt and decrypt data that moves between
> > the storage daemon and its storage devices.
> >
> >  Why:    Storage daemon based encryption could simplify the
> > encryption of data in an environment where the links between SDs and
> > FDs are local and trusted.
> >          Job data could be protected as it is written to tape, DVD,
> > or other media which may be used for off-site storage.
> >
> >  Notes:  * Environments with many backup clients would not have to
> > maintain secure and safe storage of many keys
> >          * This adds the ability to migrate existing tapes to an
> > encrypted format; read the plaintext tape to disk, write the data
> > back out encrypted to
> >            another tape.
>
> As an addendum to the feature request, here are some crypto
> implementation details I wrote up regarding SD-encryption back in Jan
> 2008:
>       http://www.mail-archive.com/bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT 
> net/msg28860.ht
>ml
>
> Cheers,
> Landon

Thanks.  Noted.

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