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Re: [Bug-tar] Encrypting tar contents
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Pavel Raiskup |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Encrypting tar contents |
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Date: |
Tue, 02 Oct 2018 11:08:15 +0200 |
Hi Kirk,
On Monday, October 1, 2018 5:39:10 PM CEST Kirk Liberty wrote:
> Has there been any consideration/investigation/work towards adding native
> encryption to tar?
It's possible through --use-compress-program/-I, see the manual:
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/gzip.html , cit.:
| The '--use-compress-program' option, in particular, lets you
| implement your own filters, not necessarily dealing with
| compression/decompression. For example, suppose you wish to implement
| PGP encryption on top of compression, using 'gpg' (*note gpg:
| (gpg)Top.). The following script does that:
Pavel