Package: bacula-common Version: 2.2.4-1 Severity: wishlist This is a follow-on to bug #440034.
Based on discussions with the bacula developers (see thread "encrypted backups now = problems later?" beginning Sept 30 UTC in http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bacula-devel. It doesn't looks as if the URL for the thread is portable, so I haven't given it.), disabling openssl also disables data encryption. The current news message only refers to SSL/TLS, which I believe concerns on-the-wire encryption. It would be useful to indicate that data encrytpion is disabled also, and to note that the --with-openssl enables it as well. The root of the confusion is that openssl, the library, provides more than SSL services. It might also be worth adding the reassuring fact that the encryption format is standard; if necessary it should be possible to decrypt using different software, though that would not be integrated with bacula. Kern indicates openssl support is likely to stay, and that the licensing issues will soon be resolved. Eventually they may add support for another encryption library, probably NSS, but there are no specific plans to do so. FYI, unrelated to this report, there's another critical data loss bug that's been discovered and fixed. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (990, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages bacula-common depends on: ii adduser 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy bacula-common recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
