Online backups for the truly paranoid... with an easily scriptable 'drop in replacement for tar' UI. Bootstrapped startup since 2006, run by @cperciva.
I just released Tarsnap version 1.0.41. This contains mitigations for a chosen-plaintext attack against Tarsnap's chunking algorithm which can leak its secret parameters.
Release announcement: https://t.co/pO2EVDZ9oy
Blog post: https://t.co/9WCrIsrd1r
Paper: Should be on the Cryptology ePrint archive soon; I'll post when it's up.
Because we want to protect the most vulnerable members of our community, @BSDCan is requiring face masks this year.
Because I know people will forget, @Tarsnap is exercising its Silver sponsorship to include "vendor swag" in the tote bags: Two KN95 masks per person.
Just updated the @tarsnap .deb packages to use the 2024 signing keys instead of the 2023 signing keys (which expire on 2024-02-01). If your apt-get is now breaking, you forgot to install (or update) the tarsnap-archive-keyring package.
Tarsnap's Black Friday sale is live! For an unlimited time, you can get three tools which I wrote for Tarsnap's internal use -- kivaloo, scrypt, and spiped -- for the low price of $0.00! https://t.co/DY7Ys74EYh
Added some details about outages to the @tarsnap website: https://t.co/X0KGgr5fjk
To save you a click: 99.93% uptime since 2008; slightly higher over the past 5 years.
Tarsnap is offline due to a hardware failure. I'm working on bringing it back. All your data is safe, just temporarily inaccessible.
https://t.co/A112E7TjnJ
Donated $1000 to support Glen Barber's work on FreeBSD. He's an excellent release engineer and works incredibly hard to keep the project running smoothly.
I hope other companies using FreeBSD will also contribute.
https://t.co/2vh7RvIVJP
Our annual Ottawa developer summit would not be possible without the generous support of sponsors; the #FreeBSD Foundation would like to thank @Tarsnap for their gold-level sponsorship. https://t.co/N07H3dsJVH
If any Tarsnap users are affected by the SVB meltdown, just send me an email and I'll be happy to make sure your data is safe despite liquidity issues. I just need to know that there's a problem and you still want to keep your data.
Since I've been asked: @Tarsnap has no direct exposure to Silicon Valley Bank, and as far as I'm aware has no indirect exposure either. It's business as usual here.
For the record, @tarsnap is not presently hiring. If you recently received an email from "me" saying that I want to hire you: Sorry, it wasn't from me.