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diff --git a/man/xml-source/amcrypt.8.xml b/man/xml-source/amcrypt.8.xml
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new mode 100644
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--- a/man/xml-source/amcrypt.8.xml
+++ b/man/xml-source/amcrypt.8.xml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"
[
-
+
%global_entities;
]>
@@ -11,11 +11,17 @@
amcrypt
8
+&rmi.source;
+&rmi.version;
+&rmi.manual.8;
amcrypt
-reference crypt program for &A; symmetric data encryption
+reference crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption
+
+&author.ktill;
+
@@ -26,21 +32,22 @@
DESCRIPTION
&amcrypt;
-requires aespipe and aespipe, uuencode and gpg to work. Aespipe is available from
&amcrypt; will search for the aespipe program in the following directories:
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin.
-&amcrypt; calls &amaespipe; and pass the
+&amcrypt; calls &amaespipe; and pass the
passphrase through file descriptor 3.
-The passphrase should be stored in ~amanda/.am_passphrase.
+The passphrase should be stored in ~amanda/.am_passphrase.
How to create encryption keys for amcrypt
-1. Create 65 random encryption keys and encrypt those keys using gpg. Reading
+1. Create 65 random encryption keys and encrypt those keys using gpg. Reading
from /dev/random may take indefinitely long if kernel's random entropy pool
is empty. If that happens, do some other work on some other console (use
-keyboard, mouse and disks).
+keyboard, mouse and disks).
head -c 2925 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | head -n 66 | tail -n 65 \
| gpg --symmetric -a > ~amanda/.gnupg/am_key.gpg
@@ -59,18 +66,17 @@ chmod 700 ~amanda/.am_passphrase
Key and Passphrase
&amcrypt; uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt data.
-It is very important to store and protect the key and the passphrase
+It is very important to store and protect the key and the passphrase
properly. Encrypted backup data can only be recovered with the correct key and
-passphrase.
+passphrase.
-SEE ALSO
-amanda8,
-amanda.conf5,
-aespipe1,
-amaespipe8,
-gpg1
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