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Re:Backing up a Linux system to Usenet by therealmarv on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:16AM (#13616412)
Nobody cares about data junk. Especially your personal data junk if it is all encrypted. I don't think that a lot of persons will look at your data there. If this sort of good encryption you consider for public cloud backups breaks we have a lot more problems than exposed backups.
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Re:Backing up a Linux system to Usenet by dillonb on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:24AM (#13616504)
Saying "nobody cares" about your data is not a good security policy.
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Re:Backing up a Linux system to Usenet by therealmarv on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:30AM (#13616585)
hm. Security policies is something you can break with one way or another. You cannot break mathematics that way.
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Re:Backing up a Linux system to Usenet by cestith on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:29PM (#13619054)
You want math? How many combinations are afforded by your "long, carefully chosen password" in a symmetric system? How many core seconds per hour does a typical botnet scriptmonger control? Cryptanalysis of GPG doesn't even matter if Eve has enough time to brute force your symmetric key.
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Re:Backing up a Linux system to Usenet by dillonb on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:41AM (#13616695)
The encryption tools you are using are written by people, and can have bugs. Being careless and blindly trusting them can get you into trouble.
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Re:Backing up a Linux system to Usenet by bb101 on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:32AM (#13616601)
Who knows? Your private backups might even end up being conveniently available test data for nascent quantum decryption software.
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