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Effective Data Protection Through Secure Backups With GnuPG

GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. It is a valuable piece of software that is very easy to use and will serve our purpose for covering the topic of secure backups. I won't got into details in installing GnuPG as there are number of good installation guides around that pretty much cover this topic (faqs.org, linux-tutorial.info and web.bham.ac.uk). Depending on your server and administrator, GnuPG will be ither pre-installed, installed after bugging the administrator or installed by yourself if you have sufficient local privileges. . . .. GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. It is a valuable piece of software that is very easy to use and will serve our purpose for covering the topic of secure backups. I won't got into details in installing GnuPG as there are number of good installation guides around that pretty much cover this topic (faqs.org, linux-tutorial.info and web.bham.ac.uk). Depending on your server and administrator, GnuPG will be ither pre-installed, installed after bugging the administrator or installed by yourself if you have sufficient local privileges. I'm working for a relatively large Internet Presence Provider (IPP) that servs about 4000 clients from about 30 countries worldwide. Besides a chunk of e-mails to our support regarding viruses, leaching and insecure Perl/PHP scripts, I've seen a number of questions related to securely downloading backups. The link for this article located at Help Net Security is no longer available. . GnuPG is a complete and free replacement for PGP. It is a valuable piece of software that is very ea. gnupg, complete, replacement, valuable, piece, software. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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