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Encrypted personal archives

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2017-03-14 · latest 2019-02-15

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  1. …want to store a large encrypted blob on a USB key as a backup, less so. I personally use enchive ( https://github.com/skeeto/enchive ) for that, it's like the encryption counterpart to minisign and in my opinion it really should be on the…
    comment by red_admiral · 2019-02-15 · in Modern Alternatives to PGP
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    Encrypted personal archives
    story by jeremya · 2017-03-31 · 0 comments
  3. The author posted an FAQ that addresses many of these comments: https://github.com/skeeto/enchive#frequently-asked-questions
  4. From https://github.com/skeeto/enchive : > The process for encrypting a file: > 1. Generate an ephemeral 256-bit Curve25519 key pair. > 2. Perform a Curve25519 Diffie-Hellman key exchange with the master key to produce a shared secret. >…
  5. …for archival encryption. Author replacing PGP with his own archive/file encryption software: https://github.com/skeeto/enchive