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A comment on Tarsnap critical security bug.

Re:Tarsnap critical security bug by miGlanz on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @04:23PM (#2117459)
Colin, one question: let's say I'm not paranoid about my backups' security. So I don't want to re-encrypt anything (even though it's only about 1GB). How does upgrade to 1.0.28 affect existing and new backups (and deduplication among those)?
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Re:Tarsnap critical security bug by cperciva on Tuesday January 18, 2011 @04:32PM (#2117499)
Tarsnap 1.0.28 is completely compatible with earlier versions (except for key file format changes in 1.0.22). The only nontrivial change was to make new uploaded data get encrypted correctly.
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