Re: [Duplicity-talk] Encryption password selection

[Yves Goergen]

Am 08.12.2014 um 18:30 schrieb address@hidden:
> for symmetric encryption passphrases anything from length of one character up 
> should work.

Okay. I've seen systems where a certain maximum length of a password 
must not be exceeded. And when using a password for encrpytion, there 
may be certain restrictions about how long a "key" must be. So if I 
specify some random 30 characters that's fine. (I keep them stored in a 
file, don't need to remember them.)

> yes, you can encrypt symmetrically and sign the result with a key.

Oh, so signing is not possible if I don't use a key file. Which I never 
did. Didn't know it was possible. But I think I can only benefit the 
signature validation if I have the GnuPG key for restoring, so I might 
as well use that for encryption, too, instead of that PASSPHRASE 
environment variable that's not well explained.

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