Re: [Gnu-arch-users] oh the heck with it -- tla-1.2pre0

[Dustin Sallings]

On Dec 30, 2003, at 13:36, Andrew Suffield wrote:

> >   Is it possible to create encrypted archives ?
>
> What on earth is this supposed to accomplish?
>
> openpgp encryption is many-to-one, not one-to-many - I can't see how
> it adds anything here.

	I use gpg to encrypt my database dumps on the way out of the DB such 
that they may be decrypted with one of two or three different keys that 
are kept in different places.  By the times the dumps hit the disk, I 
should safely be able to post them to usenet, or use whatever other 
means of distribution I'd want to use.

	Likewise, I have an archive of private stuff that I'd love to 
replicate in all of my usual places, but it's more sensitive stuff I 
don't necessarily want the world to see.  Knowing that the history of 
such things is safe both in the revision control system and in the 
distribution of the archives seems like a good thing to me.

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