Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[David Thornton]

William O'Higgins wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:24:05PM -0400, Sy wrote:
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>>Previously, I had done a little bit of exploring into various kinds of
>>data synchronization applications.. I looked at softraid solutions and
>>even at cvs-like solutions.  I hated all of it and never found
>>something I liked.  I ended up doing things the slow and thorough way.
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>I've been using subversion to keep laptop and desktop versioned and
>synchronous, and while it's far from flawless, it does work all right.
>That said, it's a good ten minutes to synch my ~/Mail tree (500Mb).
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>>Something which might be interesting to consider would be to
>>heavily-encrypt the data and then a community could provide mutual
>>remotely synchronized offsite backups.  I'd be willing to buy hard
>>drives to do something like this.
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>>Heck, I can even imagine a p2p secure backup project for this idea.
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>>Oh.. and hi everyone.. I'm new.  =)
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>Hi :-)  You type really well for a new person - when I was new I
>couldn't reliably find the keyboard, or even stop drooling.
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>Seriously though, take a look at the LOCKSS[1] program - it is probably
>adaptable to an encrypted setup that provides sufficient security
>against casual malfeasance.  If the police or CSIS want the data you
>will have some explaining to do if they show up with a production order
>or a warrant and you don't think they have the right to your
>computer/hard drive.  Plausible deniability may be worth designing into
>a system.
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>[1] Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe: http://lockss.stanford.edu/
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When it comes to Plausible deniability you could use rubberhose

http://www.mirrors.wiretapped.net/security/cryptography/filesystems/rubberhose/rubberhose-README.txt

http://archive.quadratic.net/software/rubberhose/

Did I post this already?

I can't find a digital record of posting it; but I can find the memory of posting it.
Must be getting old.

david


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