Subject: Re: CBC and LRW?
To: Travis H. <solinym@gmail.com>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
List: tech-security
Date: 08/03/2006 17:28:03
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Travis H. wrote:

> There is a minor disadvantage here in that your data will be available
> in ciphertext form with two different ciphers (though hopefully two
> different keys).  So your strength is limited to the weakest of the
> two, if one makes the (probably unreasonable) assumption the attacker
> has access to both.

True. However, given that I'm encrypting the backups, which are dump files,
with PGP, probably the cgd is the weaker of the two, anyway.

> Are you using http://duplicity.nongnu.org/?

No, just dump and gpg. But that looks like an interesting alternative.
Thanks for the hint.

cjs
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