On Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:19:35 -0500, Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lock it in a safe deposit box. A relative with a death certificate > can get it out when you're gone. Or secret-split the key among a > group of trusted relatives/friends. Or give it to a trusted attorney, > with instructions for him to release the key/passphrase when you are > dead. Lots of viable options here.
Safe deposit box sounds okay, but a secret-split is way too wierd. I can just see my grand-kids joking about Grampa Jorgensen's dumb secret he mutters about, or the wrong person passing away at the wrong time. Actually, by the time people are looking back at your journals they'll probably have the technology to break the encryption anyway (yeah, I know, we're supposedly millions of years off, but that's only if this quantum computing thing never takes off.) The real question is if it's worth it. My journal is protected by a much more powerful force than crypto: Lack of interest. Yours has this built-in protection to an even greater degree. Nothing personal about you, I just mean that the effort to go through hours of audio to find confirmation for an old family story is way more than the effort to grep through a text file or flip through some pages of bad-but-not-too-bad hand writing. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
