Re: [Duplicity-talk] Different session key for each backup volume?

[edgar . soldin]

On 24.06.2011 14:48, Chris Poole wrote:
> My question really pertains to how Duplicity, or perhaps how the GPG library
> that it uses, works. I assume it doesn't start up GPG, generate a session key
> once, then somehow keep that session going such that each volume uses the same
> random key for all the symmetric encryption.
> 
> I've never used the GPG library though, just the standard CLI program, so I'm
> unsure.
> 

duplicity actually runs the gpg commandline binary internally to encrypt data 
volumes. each file ending up on the backend is encrypted with a separate run of 
gpg with the proper parameters needed.

..ede