On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 07:34:43PM -0500, Dave Baker wrote: > On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:25:23AM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > True, but somebody who can get your harddisk can get it also. That > > means you can store in a place which is as safe as your hard > > disk. > > > > Other factors may will into play, and given that your backup is > (hopefully) in some form of offline storage the same properties will have > a different impact on how safe it is. (e.g. physical location, ease of > theft, ease of undetected theft ...) > > So, in theory, an equally safe place is fine. In practice, an equally > safe place may be impractical to find, or create. I think this is just a case by case issue. But should backup your secret key if you can do it in an equally safe place or even better a safer place IMHO. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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