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<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>amaespipe</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
&rmi.source;
&rmi.version;
&rmi.manual.8;
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<refnamediv>
<refname>amaespipe</refname>
<refpurpose>wrapper program for aespipe</refpurpose>
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&author.ktill;
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<cmdsynopsis>
  <command>amaespipe</command>    
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<refsect1><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>&amaespipe;
requires <emphasis remap='B'>aespipe</emphasis>, <emphasis remap='B'>uuencode</emphasis> and <emphasis remap='B'>gpg</emphasis> to work.
Aespipe is available from <ulink url="http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net"/></para>
<para>&amaespipe; will search for the aespipe program in the following directories:
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin. </para>
<para>&amaespipe; is called by &amcrypt; for Amanda data encryption.</para>
<para>&amaespipe; is based on aespipe's bzaespipe program.
It calls aespipe to encrypt data using AES256 as the encryption and SHA256 as the
hash function. GPG key should be stored in $AMANDA_HOME/.gnupg/am_key.gpg.
&amaespipe; reads passphrase from file descriptor 3.
During decryption, &amaespipe; autodects encryption type and hash function from
the encrypted image.</para>
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<seealso>
<manref name="amanda.conf" vol="5"/>,
<manref name="aespipe" vol="1"/>,
<manref name="amcrypt" vol="8"/>,
<manref name="gpg" vol="1"/>
</seealso>

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