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Joey Hess 2013-08-29 14:32:25 -04:00
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@ -107,8 +107,9 @@ A risk of this scheme is that, once the symmetric cipher has been
obtained, it allows full access to all the encrypted content. Indeed
anyone owning a key that used to be granted access could already have
decrypted the cipher and stored a copy. While it is in possible to
revoke a key with `keyid-=`, it is designed for a
[[completely_different_purpose|encryption]].
remove a key with `keyid-=`, it is designed for a
[[completely_different_purpose|/encryption]] and does not actually revoke
access.
If git-annex stores the decrypted symmetric cipher in memory, then there
is a risk that it could be intercepted from there by an attacker. Gpg