Paul Baecher

My academic background is in theoretical cryptography where I was part of Prof. Dr. Marc Fischlin's research group Cryptography and Complexity Theory at TU Darmstadt from March 2010 to February 2015. During that I completed a Ph.D. in computer science in October 2014. Email: pbaecher/gmail.com PGP: 0xAB2EFE17

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Reproducible Git Bundles

2023187 points34 comments Tools & Productivity details

Describes how to create reproducible and deterministic one-file bundles of git repositories for use cases such as backups.

Incremental Backups of Gmail Takeouts

2025131 points62 comments Tools & Productivity details

Discusses the problem of Gmail takeouts as a single giant file and provides detailed background on the gmail-mbox-codec app that allows efficient incremental backups of said file.