[Cryptography] Keeping backups (was Re: Separating concerns

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Fri Aug 30 05:00:19 EDT 2013


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 01:30:35PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 20:04:34 +0200 Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
> > One thing that irks me, though, is the problem of the robust, secure
> > terminal: if everything is encrypted, how does one survive the
> > loss/theft/destruction of a computer or harddrive?
> 
> So, as has been discussed, I envision people having small cheap
> machines at home that act as their "cloud", and the system prompting
> them to pick a friend to share encrypted backups with.

This is precisely the use case for Freedombox running Tahoe LAFS.


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