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Backing up in trees with Obnam 1.0

Backing up in trees with Obnam 1.0

Posted Jun 15, 2012 9:02 UTC (Fri) by Darkstar (guest, #28767)
In reply to: Backing up in trees with Obnam 1.0 by joey
Parent article: Backing up in trees with Obnam 1.0

This is actually how public key encryption is meant to be used. You should never use it to encrypt data directly, ONLY for encrypting the symmetric key. Otherwise the whole scheme becomes less secure


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