What I was thinking is of a way maybe to have some password based
encryption, where only the users know his password but I didn't find any
solution that can work like this.
I guess for now we have to settle that the IT admin. Or the Sys admin have
access to the encrypted data.






Wassim C. Zaarour
Systems & Network Engineer




On 2/16/12 12:01 PM, "Thomas Mueller" <thomas AT chaschperli DOT ch> wrote:

>Am Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:07:40 +0200 schrieb Wassim Zaarour:
>
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Currently the data encryption option in Bacula is based on certificates,
>> meaning that if the person creating the certificates for the client
>> keeps his copy of the certs, he is able to restore and decrypt the data
>> without the users approval, since some people want their data
>> undecryptable by absolutely anyone but them, I was wondering if there is
>> a way to encrypt data using a password that only the client knows, or of
>> there any ideas how to achieve this.
>> 
>
>let the user himself create the encryption cert and try to use only the
>public-key in the sd.
>
>In theory encryption does just need the public-key. Encrypting needs the
>private key. but I don't know if it is possible to provide only the
>public key to bacula-sd.
>
>- Thomas
>
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