[Borgbackup] Scenario: Paranoid situation goes wrong

Sitaram Chamarty sitaramc at gmail.com
Thu Sep 29 23:26:51 EDT 2016


On 09/30/2016 08:08 AM, Thomas Waldmann wrote:
>> Question I've been meaning to ask: in either case, is there a key
>> stretching operation involved, to slow down brute forces?
> 
> See there:
> 
> http://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/internals.html#key-files

Thanks!

Would it be ok to suggest making the number of rounds customisable by
the user (like the "-a" parameter in ssh-keygen, and maybe other such
tools I don't know).

If you're in principle OK with it, I'll open a ticket/issue on github.

regards
sitaram



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