[Box Backup] More about security

Mikael Syska boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 21 Apr 2006 19:05:57 +0200


Martin Ebourne wrote:

> *snip*
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>As Mikael said the only thing you cannot recreate is the client's key
>file. This is what is used to encrypt all of the data and should be kept
>securely on the client (and offline), and not even passed to the server.
>
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heh, yes, if you then crew up one client's certicicate you just have to 
recreate all credificates for all your clienrs need to bacnup......... 
and that really sux... :-(...............

So keep all of them reallt safely :-)

>The rest of the files are for the certificates which are just used for
>authentication on the server side. You can regenerate all of those
>completely from scratch if you need to (follow the usual instructions).
>
>Cheers,
>
>Martin
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If that was a double post I'm sorry

I'm drumk, and its friday http://www.harrys-kaelder.dk/ night.....

// Mikarl Syska