csirac2 / snazzer

btrfs snapshotting and backup system offering snapshot measurement, transport and pruning.
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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snazzer-measure should just pgp sign the sha512sum rather than full path content #14

Open csirac2 opened 9 years ago

csirac2 commented 9 years ago

Currently the measurement reports are expensive to validate; PGP signatures are performed over the entire snapshot contents in parallel with sha512sum. It would make more sense to simply PGP sign the hashes. There was a time when I thought PGP sigs would be the only way to go but now I'm quite sure there is a vanishingly small population people even remotely interested in backup integrity at all, let alone integrity which involves PGP.