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Re: [Question #107216]: Public key encryption and incremental backups

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Date: Fri, 07 May 2010 22:51:16 -0000
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Question #107216 on Duplicity changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/107216

edso posted a new comment:
> 
> The advantage to this approach over my understanding of your approach 
> (one host key, plus one admin key) is that, even if the hacker gets 
> access to the cleartext passphrase for the signing key, they can still 
> never decrypt the backups. I apologise if I have misunderstood you.
> 

no need for apologies and thanks for the ingenious idea of separating
encryption and signing key ... ede

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