Tag: crypt server
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Using the field encryption key to decrypt secrets in Crypt Server
Why do this? Well, you shouldn’t really ever need to do this. The beauty of Crypt Server is that you run the docker container with the field encryption key, and Django automatically does all the encrypting and decrypting for you. You shouldn’t need to look manually at the keys stored in the database. But, in…
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Backing up database data from a Crypt server
This is really just a step-by-step version of what’s available in the July 2015 update doc, which links to Django dumpdata and loaddata. If you want back up your Crypt server database, this is how you can dump the data out: docker ps to find the name of your docker container, in case you forgot…
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Basics of Crypt 2 and Crypt Server
Graham Gilbert created a pretty cool project called Crypt 2, which forces client machines to enable FileVault2 encryption, and then sends the recovery key to a Crypt Server. So far the documentation on Crypt 2 is rather sparse, so this is what I was able to piece together based on the README, some asking around,…