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Asymmetrical Backup Encryption using Public/Private Key

Open ovidiul opened this issue 5 years ago • 3 comments

ovidiul avatar Mar 21 '19 14:03 ovidiul

@ovidiul what's this about?

vdrover avatar May 04 '20 16:05 vdrover

I would say that yes.

Right now, the encryption key of the backup is being stored inside the XCloner Settings, so anybody with access to the backend can download and decrypt the backup using that key.

An asymmetrical encryption option would allow the user to save only the public key, while the private key would be kept in a separate location, so a third party user, with backend access, could not decrypt the backup. with just the public key.

So, in the long run, this would be the safest solution to encrypt a backup.

ovidiul avatar May 12 '20 09:05 ovidiul

Cool. Let's think about this for 4.2.2.

vdrover avatar May 12 '20 12:05 vdrover

closing for now.

vdrover avatar Nov 21 '22 16:11 vdrover