Re: [Duplicity-talk] While we're waiting for invincible-against-corruption encryption ;), what about SHA512?

[Cristian KLEIN]

Jacob a écrit :
> Right now, after every backup, I create sha512sums for newly created
> backups, and append that to a big file of sha512sums. I'm wondering
> if duplicity can do this sha512sum checking automatically for me. It
> could be an additional option:
> 
> --sha512-file=/path/to/sha512sum-file
> 
> When any new duplicity file is created, it should also generate
> sha512sums for that file and append it to the file mentioned. When
> any existing backups are read, it would check sha512sums first.

What would be the advantage of this method, when compared to --sign-key?