On Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:40:31 -0800, jim bell wrote:

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I don't intend to submit my present or future private PGP keys for key escrow (Is that what's called GAK?). To protect myself against forgetting my private key (which has happened once already) I'll no doubt some day put it on a floppy and put the floppy in my bank safe deposit box.

You still have to "remember" that long, non-memorizable key, although something like that can be written on paper and well-hidden and/or split up into parts. It's only value is to decrypt that bank-stored floppy.

It'd be only 256 bytes or 512 hex digits. If it was *that* important, you _could_ memorize it! After all, some monks memorized the entire Bible. I knew guys who had pi memorized to over 300 places.... # Chris Adams <adamsc@io-online.com> | http://www.io-online.com/adamsc/adamsc.htp # <cadams@acucobol.com> | send mail with subject "send PGPKEY" "That's our advantage at Microsoft; we set the standards and we can change them." --- Karen Hargrove, Microsoft (quoted in the Feb 1993 Unix Review editorial)