On Jul 1, 2009, at 4:29 PM, silky wrote:
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N<[email protected]>
wrote:
Udhay Shankar N wrote, [on 5/29/2009 9:02 AM]:
Fascinating discussion at boing boing that will probably be of
interest
to this list.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/27/what-will-happen-to.html
Followup article by Cory Doctorow:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/30/data-protection-internet
A potentially amusing/silly solution would be to have one strong key
that you change monthly, and then, encrypt *that* key, with a method
that will be brute-forceable in 2 months and make it public. As long
as you are constantly changing your key, no-one will decrypt it in
time, but assuming you do die, they can potentially decrypt it while
arranging your funeral :)
I'll point out that PGP has had key splitting for ages now. You can
today make a strong public key and split it into N shares, of which
two or three shares are needed to reconstitute the key, and hand those
out to trusted loved ones.
You can then use that public key for files, virtual disks, whole disk
volumes -- anywhere you could use an RSA or Elgamal key -- and be
assured that your data is safe in the absence of a conspiracy of those
loved ones.
It's there now, and has been there for a decade.
Jon
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