-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I've printed out my paperkey and keeping it in my home. I am not making any illegal things, so police will not come to investigate my house one day :). So it is secure for me in case that one day my home and work computers explode at the same time :)
Benjamin Donnachie wrote: > 2009/2/8 Ian Hill <[email protected]>: >> Correct you print it out, but I cannot find how to re-compile the key >> manually from the paperkey and the public key. If you can do this >> without the paperkey programme this seems a good solution, otherwise why >> not keep an e-copy of your secret key as this is likely to survive just >> as well as the paperkey program. > > Because media degrades and unlikely that the media of today will be > readable in the future. For example, you can't get 8" or 5.25" > floppies for love nor money these days and 3.5' floppies are likely to > go the same way. > > However, paper lasts a very long time. It's your call and depends how > much your key means to you. Personally, I reckon that your key is > more likely to become useless in the future. > > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users - -- Alex Amiryan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJjv3r1KOfm1RDUTERApWTAJ4wwOqOf8xqZaQDYox4EHECHC7r0wCgnqQ5 y9M0Ag1/iV+y2Q6FiLyXAjg= =TWLK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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