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Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?
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Kenneth Loafman |
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Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key? |
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Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:49:59 -0500 |
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Sorry, missed one of the questions... Encryption is covered by gpg directly.
...Ken
Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> Duplicity is primarily IO bound, so I've never actually timed the
> difference. I imagine that unless you had an extremely old or slow
> processor, it would not be that much difference.
>
> ...Ken
>
> Chris Poole wrote:
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I assume the encryption stuff is handled with gpgme or something; it's
>> not actually your own encryption code?
>>
>> Also, do you know if a symmetric key would perform faster than using a
>> public key?
>>
>> Chris Poole
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 2:01 PM, Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>> Chris Poole wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> > I had planned to just use my gpg key for encryption.
>> >
>> > Now I'm wondering, will performance be better with a symmetric key?
>> >
>> > Even when I use my public key, it still asks for me a passphrase
>> anyway.
>>
>> The current bzr version has the fix for this and it will be in 0.6.06.
>> When adding the cache-sync part of the code I made it always ask for a
>> password (not good). Now it does not unless it needs to sync the cache.
>>
>> I will try to get 0.6.06 out later this week.
>>
>> ...Ken
>>
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- [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?, Chris Poole, 2009/10/19
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?, Kenneth Loafman, 2009/10/19
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?, Chris Poole, 2009/10/19
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?, Kenneth Loafman, 2009/10/19
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- Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?, Michael Terry, 2009/10/19
- Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?, Chris Poole, 2009/10/20
Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?, Chris Poole, 2009/10/20
Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?, Gregory Maxwell, 2009/10/19