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Why does duplicity need a secret key?

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Mar 15, 20263749 views
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I'm setting up automated backups with duplicity, but there's something I don't get. I have imported my own public GPG key, but it seems that duplicity wants the private key as well. It was my understanding that the public key was used to encrypt the data, and the private key to decrypt it. Therefor…

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Duplicity doesn't sign the archive unless you specify option. In non-signing mode (only performing the encryption) the private key is needed only for the real decrypt/restore, and, let's say, archive read actions, which require re-syncing the archiv…

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