On 09/07/16 15:19, Dennis Eriksen wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 03:10:42PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: >> Is anyone interested in having this functionality? It seems like too >> obscure a use case to write code for if nobody wants it yet, but if there's >> a demand then it's definitely doable. > > As far as I am concerned, any function that improves security and > privacy,
This wouldn't have any (direct) effect on privacy; just on allowing you to detect if a (validly signed) archive is different from the one which you had stored. So, integrity, not confidentiality. > even if the usecase scenario is improbable, is a good thing > (and for me these are perhaps the two main selling points of tarsnap). > So yes, that would be interesting. :-) -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid