Eric Hughes wrote:
I'll tell you one really useful facility for offsite storage, and that's private key backup. Use a secret sharing arrangement, say 5 out of 7 reconstruction, and send out 7 chunks. Now, give a different pointer-to-chunk to each of 7 different people. In the case of catastrophe, you can recover your key.
I'll second Eric on the utility of this practice. I should've done this... I lost a new pgp key when my hard disk hit the fan last month. I can't even revoke it... Stig FYI: The key to ignore is 0x31F61BA9. The new key is on a server near you. Key for user ID: Stig <stig@hackvan.com> 1024-bit key, Key ID 6202A715, created 1995/01/03 Key fingerprint = 58 0C 16 D5 CD 27 EE 37 BB EC 47 73 36 12 9B 96