Re: [Xen-users] Cheap IOMMU hardware and ECC support importance

[lee <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 07/10/2014 09:59 AM, lee wrote:
>> Gordan Bobic <gordan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>>> I'd have to make a huge tar archive or something of my data and encrypt
>>>> that with gpg before uploading it.  That isn't really feasible.
>>>
>>> No, encfs is a layer and stores each encrypted file and filename as
>>> normal, they are just encrypted. So when you mount the encrypted data
>>> to a mount point, it's available unencrypted. When you look at the
>>> encrypted directory tree, the file names and contents are scrambled.
>>>
>>> So to back it up, you back up the encrypted subtree directly. No need
>>> for intermediate steps.
>>
>> And how good is this encryption?
>
> AES

Is that good enough?

>> What if I forget the passphrase or whatever it uses?
>
> Same thing that happens if you lose your GPG passphrase - you lose
> whatever was encrypted with it.

That's a problem.  It happened to me with gpg passphrases.

>> To back it up, I'd still have to make an archive which I can upload.
>
> Depends on how the backup service works. Many have a deamon that
> monitors directories you specify and uploads changes.

Then I won't be able to encrypt them with gpg.


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