On Tue, 15 Oct 2013 17:37:54 -0700 Leo Vegoda <[email protected]> wrote:
> > They get backed up when they back up their system. > > You seem to have ignored the word "securely" in that sentence. And > anyway, most people don't backup their systems at all. Here is, I hope, a better answer to your question 'How are keys securely backed up' , which I now understabd better: That is handled by the underlying program you are using to encrypt your mail, and so has nothng to do with this proposal directly - it's implementation dependent. Out of scope. For example, here I have Claws-Mail with gnupg installed in a plugin. Gnupg stores (or Claws-Mail tells it to store) its keys in a little database, that is encrypted on disk, with a passphrase. So claws mail must have some way to access that, store keys, etc. Since that program would have to understand both 'default-deny' and whatever its interface to gnupg is, it should be able to store keys in the same way for this. And use whatever means are available to it in Claws-Mail for backup. Or on the system. -Mike _______________________________________________ perpass mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass
