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Do you want GPG based or some other client side encryption, or S3's encryption support? The latter could probably just be turned on. The former is a feature requiring code.

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Ideally the presence of the `WALE_GPG_KEY_ID` env var should enable encrypted backups https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e#encryption.

Put differently to be a "successor" it needs to be a drop in replacement ;)

Alternatively you could use a combination of AES and RSA similar how pghoard implements it: https://github.com/ohmu/pghoard

The RSA keys (or path to them) would be passed as environment variables. It would be a little easier to setup than gpg (especially for automatic backup restoration).

I have to be selective about maintenance of features. I'll consider GPG support.

Please consider libsodium or a similar "modern" crypto library instead. There's a lot of ugly 90s crypto in GPG and the API is terrible. Libsodium makes it hard for non-crypto devs to shoot themselves in the foot, and is much less code to write.

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