>David Shaw wrote: >> Most of the storage media in use today do not have particularly >> good long-term (measured in years to decades) retention of data. >> If and when the CD-R and/or tape cassette and/or hard drive the >> secret key is stored on becomes unusable, the paper copy can be >> used to restore the secret key. If you have the passphrase but the >> secret key that it encrypted was on that bad CD-R, you have nothing >> >Aren't optical discs supposed to last for many decades if stored >properly and almost never used? >
Stamped aluminum disks will last a very long time. However, burnable disks might last around five years or so depending on quality. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
