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10 <refentry id='amaespipe.8'>
11 <refmeta>
12 <refentrytitle>amaespipe</refentrytitle>
13 <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
14 </refmeta>
15 <refnamediv>
16 <refname>amaespipe</refname>
17 <refpurpose>wrapper program for aespipe</refpurpose>
18 </refnamediv>
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20 <refsynopsisdiv>
21 <cmdsynopsis>
22   <command>amaespipe</command>    
23 </cmdsynopsis>
24 </refsynopsisdiv>
25
26 <refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
27 <para>&amaespipe;
28 requires <emphasis remap='B'>aespipe</emphasis> and <emphasis remap='B'>gpg</emphasis> to work.
29 Aespipe is available from <ulink url="http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net"/></para>
30 <para>&amaespipe; will search for the aespipe program in the following directories:
31 /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin. </para>
32 &amaespipe; is called by &amcrypt; for &A; data encryption.
33 <para>&amaespipe; is based on aespipe's bzaespipe program.
34 It calls aespipe to encrypt data using AES256 as the encryption and SHA256 as the
35 hash function. GPG key should be stored in $AMANDA_HOME/.gnupg/am_key.gpg.
36 &amaespipe; reads passphrase from file descriptor 3.
37 During decryption, &amaespipe; autodects encryption type and hash function from
38 the encrypted image.</para>
39 </refsect1>
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43 <refsect1><title>SEE ALSO</title>
44 <para><citerefentry><refentrytitle>amanda</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
45 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>amanda.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
46 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>aespipe</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
47 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>amcrypt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
48 <citerefentry><refentrytitle>gpg</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
49 </para>
50 </refsect1>
51 </refentry>
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