On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:33:32AM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote: > On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 03:14:50PM -0400, Landon Hurley wrote: > [snip] > > I do have a question about where you talk about backups though. How > > does PKI prevent back up loss? > > If I can prove that I possess my password without ever disclosing that > password to my correspondent, he never has my password and can't have > it lost or stolen. "Three can keep a secret, if two of them are > dead." > > It doesn't prevent backup loss; it eliminates the cost to me should > some vendor's backups go astray. No one can learn my secrets from > people who never had them. I only have to disclose my public key, > which is not secret, to my correspondents; my private key never leaves > my equipment unless someone penetrates *my* system or steals *my* > backups.
More to the point: my passphrase never leaves my equipment and isn't recorded anywhere outside my brain. You can only get it by getting inside my computer. That's not perfect but I like it a lot better than the current setup. -- Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer mw...@iupui.edu Asking whether markets are efficient is like asking whether people are smart.
pgpSYdkadv9Pv.pgp
Description: PGP signature
_______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
