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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Secure private key Post 302625363 by frappa on Tuesday 17th of April 2012 04:23:15 PM
Old 04-17-2012
Hi,

make sure to have an encrypted backup of private/public keypair; there are a lot of tools you may use (i.e. gpg, truecrypt, etc...).

see ya
fra
 

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AMCRYPTSIMPLE(8)					  System Administration Commands					  AMCRYPTSIMPLE(8)

NAME
amcryptsimple - reference simple crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption SYNOPSIS
amcryptsimple to be called by Amanda only DESCRIPTION
amcryptsimple calls gpg to perform symmetric data encryption on Amanda backup. amcryptsimple will search for the gpg program in the following directories: /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/sbin amcryptsimple uses one passphrase to encrypt the Amanda data and uses the same passphrase to decrypt the Amanda backup data. amcryptsimple uses AES256 as the symmetric cipher. HOW TO CREATE PASSPHRASE
Store the passphrase inside the home-directory of the Amanda user ($amanda_user) and protect it with proper permissions: echo my_secret_passphrase > ~$amanda_user/.am_passphrase chown $amanda_user:disk ~$amanda_user/.am_passphrase chmod 700 ~$amanda_user/.am_passphrase NOTES
Choose a good passphrase and protect it properly. Backup data can only be restored with the passphrase. There is no backdoor. If storing and securing passphrase in your environment presents challenges, Amanda provide public-key data encryption through amgpgcrypt. Public-key encryption uses the public key to encrypt and uses the private key to decrypt. SEE ALSO
amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), amcrypt(8), amgpgcrypt(8), amrestore(8), gpg(1) The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ AUTHOR
Kevin Till <kevin.till@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com) Amanda 3.3.1 02/21/2012 AMCRYPTSIMPLE(8)
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