On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 15:42, dan...@pocock.com.au said: > The only other issue that arises then is longevity: is a smartcard > considered more or less stable than any other type of device for long > term key storage?
I doubt that. Although smartcards are pretty robust they might still break for example by accidentally bending them. Or they just die like any other chip. Paper is much more reliable. > There are other practical issues too: is a smartcard likely to survive >a fire if stored in one of those fire-proof packets in a safe? A Paper is even smaller than smartcard. Use paperkey for an emergency backup. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users