Peter Maxwell <[email protected]> writes: >Why on earth would you need to spread your private-key across any number of >less secure machines?
The technical details are long and tedious (a pile of machines that need to talk via SSH because telnet and FTP were turned off/firewalled years ago, I won't bore you with the details). The important point isn't the technical details but the magical thinking, "a private key sprayed all over the place in plaintext is more secure than a line-noise password because everyone knows passwords are insecure and PKCs are secure" (and, as I've said, this isn't an isolated case). Peter. _______________________________________________ cryptography mailing list [email protected] http://lists.randombit.net/mailman/listinfo/cryptography
