Tarsnap
Encrypted online backup for Unix-like systems, made by Colin Percival.
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- Tarsnap is a secure online backup service for Unix-like systems, including BSD, Linux and macOS.
- Colin Percival created it.
- It encrypts data on the user's machine, stores it on Amazon S3 and uploads only what changed.
- Its keys are known only to the user.
Key facts
- Created by
- Colin Percival; work began in 2006, public beta in November 20082
- Storage
- Amazon S3, encrypted client-side1
- Key derivation
- scrypt, designed by Percival for it in 20092
Connections
Founded by
- Colin PercivalPerson
since 2006 2
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