On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Janusz A. Urbanowicz wrote:
from my experience, all keys for long-term, _safe storage_ (and after
revocation) should be kept with no passphases at all
human memory is very volatile and some day you gonna need to decrypt an
old email encrypted with the key you revoked in 1993[1], and there's is
no way you'll remember the old, long time not used, non-trivial
passphrase
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and then keep the printout in a very safe place? a very well hidden place?
very safe, well hidden place?
hehe... the problem then isn't remembering the passphrase, but remembering
where you put the paper ;)
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...atom
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762A 3B98 A3C3 96C9 C6B7 582A B88D 52E4 D9F5 7808
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