On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Bill Stewart wrote:
and you have potentially decent business reasons for backup of storage keys, but that's only the case if you're not using a sufficiently flexible cryptosystem and are using key backup instead of data backup, which is really the preferred approach anyway.)
I could envision situations where you wouldn't want to backup plaintext, but only ciphertext. In those situations, key backup would also be necessary. This would require the use of passphrases or some other tokens to utilize the backed up keys. -- Phil Helms Internet: phil@cccs.cccoes.edu Community College Computer Services Phone: 303/595-1524 Denver, Colorado FAX: 303/620-4697