On 5/16/07, Peter Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then only that > passphrase needs to be securely stored and the secret key can be stored > with standard backup procedures.
I believe the originally posted question centered around long-term key storage, for which magnetic and optical media are inadequate. Popular media would require continual maintenance, such as burning to new discs every 5-10 years, or upgrading the tape format to LTO-1600 in 2013. Whether or not the private key is protected by a strong pass phrase doesn't really matter; how to store and recover a key from paper is the challenge. This discussion does raise in my mind another issue: if you're worried about being able to read CD/DVD or other media at some distant point in the future, shouldn't you also archive the GnuPG source code so you can compile a version for some future architecture for which there may be no OpenPGP software? We know ASCII, HTML, and PDF will last forever, but OpenPGP is probably not guaranteed immortality by its popularity. -- RPM _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users