Trust able remote storage

David Nicol davidnicol at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 07:47:53 CDT 2008


On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Luke -Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:

>  And what happens when you lose your data and need that backup? I hope you have
>  plans for backing up your decryption private key as well... The best solution
>  to this problem I can come up with is to simply XOR the private key with a
>  memorized passphrase (so the file can't be identified), perhaps stick a few
>  fake-but-potentially-possible headers on it, and put it somewhere nobody will
>  expect but it will survive if needed.

I e-mail such things to one of my hotmail sock-puppets.

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