Re: [Duplicity-talk] symmetric key, or public gpg key?

[edgar . soldin]

> > Really?  I thought duplicity still needed to decrypt the signature files
> > during backups, and therefore need the key + passphrase?
>
> With the newest duplicity, the cache (archive) dir is permanent so you
> don't need a passphrase.  The local sig files are unencrypted.

Hmm I understood form earlier threads last year one could do backups 
with the public key only? So this is not true? The private key and 
passphrase are needed for incremental backups because the sig files have 
to be read for these? Right?

... thx ede
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