2008/6/10 Nathaniel Homier <nathaniel.homier@bresnan.net>:
all is well. I carry my public and private key on my thumb drive and the
private key is protected with a passphrase.
Whoops .. do not carry your private key around. No. Keep it somewhere
only you can access and rsik of loosing it is zilch - almost.
I have the private key backed up on a desktop computer. The pass phrase was
generated with a high quality pseudo-random number generator using 20
characters consisting of letters, numbers and symbols. The key strength is
4096 and is rsa.
Yes, but if you are carrying private key in your pen drive and you
loose it or some one copies it your total security is compromised
howsoever strong encryption algorithm was used to generate the key
pair.