* Michael Jinks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [18-02-2003 19:03]: > If what you want is to store a bunch of stuff, for however long, in a > small number of encrypted cpio (or tar or whatever) archives, are there > really going to be so many of them that it justifies a script with a > password in it? And, if you're worried enough about privacy to want to > store your files in an encrypted form, why would you also simultaneously > want to store the key to unlock them in a script on the same system? If > you store the password+script elsewhere, you're back to the same problem > you had with keeping a key on a floppy, only now it's a script instead of > a key.
Also, if you think that floppies aren't all that reliable, you could still print (on paper) the ascii armoured private key and store it somewhere safe. In case the floppy doesn't work anymore, you could still get the paper, type it and re-import on gpg. Of course, would be a tedious thing to do, but that's the last resort thing, isn't it? Just my $.02 -- Bruno Lustosa, aka Lofofora | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Administrator/Web Programmer | ICQ UIN: 1406477 Rio de Janeiro - Brazil |
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