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Name

amcrypt  reference crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption

Synopsis

amcrypt

DESCRIPTION

amcrypt requires aespipe, uuencode and gpg to work. Aespipe is available from
http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net
amcrypt will search for the aespipe program in the following directories: /usr/
bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin.
amcrypt calls amaespipe and pass the passphrase through file descriptor 3. The
passphrase should be stored in ~amanda/.am_passphrase.

How to create encryption keys for amcrypt

1. Create 65 random encryption keys and encrypt those keys using gpg. Reading
from /dev/random may take indefinitely long if kernel's random entropy pool is
empty. If that happens, do some other work on some other console (use keyboens                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             