AMAESPIPE(8)

💅 AMAESPIPE(8) — wrapper program for aespipe, from System Administration Commands ✨

okay bestie, this is the whole manual for amaespipe, and the manual name is folded right up here so we don’t have to copy the boring header line. Periodt 💖

🎀 NAME 🎀

amaespipe — wrapper program for aespipe.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

amaespipe

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

okay so here’s the deal: amaespipe requires aespipe, uuencode and gpg to work. aespipe is available from : http://loop-aes.sourceforge.net — yes, the colon situation is part of the og text 🫶.

amaespipe will search for the aespipe program in the following directories:

/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin

amaespipe is called by amcrypt for Amanda data encryption. It’s giving backup-team main character energy 💅.

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. The GPG key should be stored in $AMANDA_HOME/.gnupg/am_key.gpg — that’s the spot, bestie 🎀.

amaespipe reads the passphrase from file descriptor 3. During decryption, amaespipe autodects the encryption type and hash function from the encrypted image. (Yep, “autodects” is how the manpage spells it — I’m not fixing it, I’m just delivering the facts 😭.)

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• amanda(8)
• amanda.conf(5)
• aespipe(1)
• amcrypt(8)
• gpg(1)

The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/ 💜

💖 AUTHOR 💖

Kevin Till <kevin.till@zmanda.com> Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

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okay that’s the page, bestie. Shoutout to Amanda 3.5.4, dated 07/23/2025 — and the manual name is AMAESPIPE(8) for the receipt 💅✨