1AMCRYPT(8)              System Administration Commands              AMCRYPT(8)
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NAME

6       amcrypt - reference crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption
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SYNOPSIS

9       amcrypt
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DESCRIPTION

12       amcrypt requires aespipe, uuencode and gpg to work. Aespipe is
13       available from : http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net
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15       amcrypt will search for the aespipe program in the following
16       directories: /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin.
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18       amcrypt calls amaespipe and pass the passphrase through file descriptor
19       3. The passphrase should be stored in ~amanda/.am_passphrase.
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HOW TO CREATE ENCRYPTION KEYS FOR AMCRYPT

22       1. Create 65 random encryption keys and encrypt those keys using gpg.
23       Reading from /dev/random may take indefinitely long if kernel's random
24       entropy pool is empty. If that happens, do some other work on some
25       other console (use keyboard, mouse and disks).
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27       head -c 2925 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | head -n 66 | tail -n 65 \ |
28       gpg --symmetric -a > ~amanda/.gnupg/am_key.gpg
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30       This will ask for a passphrase. Remember this passphrase as you will
31       need it in the next step.
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33       2. Store the passphrase inside the home-directory of the AMANDA-user
34       and protect it with proper permissions:
35       echo my_secret_passphrase > ~amanda/.am_passphrase
36       chown amanda:disk ~amanda/.am_passphrase
37       chmod 700 ~amanda/.am_passphrase
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KEY AND PASSPHRASE

40       amcrypt uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt data.
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42       It is very important to store and protect the key and the passphrase
43       properly. Encrypted backup data can only be recovered with the correct
44       key and passphrase.
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SEE ALSO

47       amanda(8), amanda.conf(5), aespipe(1), amaespipe(8), gpg(1)
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49       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/
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AUTHOR

52       Kevin Till <kevin.till@zmanda.com>
53           Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)
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57Amanda 3.5.4                      07/27/2023                        AMCRYPT(8)
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