key storage

[Frank Tobin]

Jason Helfman, at 15:54 -0500 on Fri, 14 Apr 2000, wrote:

> If you don't keep them local, where would you keep them, other then an 
> encrypted filesystem?

Removable drives (e.g., floppy), or other input devices such as serial
ports provide a decent means of having an 'air-wall' between your secret
keys and the OpenPGP application when they are not in use.  There are a
whole bunch of fun/exotic/paranoid measures one could go to to protect
one's secret keys.  Lots of them cut down on your productivity,
though.  Pick your favorite game.

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