Effective Backup of Secret Keys

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Richard B. Tilley wrote:
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>If the directory .gnupg is copied to a floppy or CD, would that be
>adequate key backup?

If you use a floppy, replace it every year or so. Those things go bad
after a while. I also keep an base64 printout of mine so that if all else
fails, I can type it in by hand and run it through a MIME decoder to get
the original binary back. I don't expect to ver have to do this, but
keeping a printout in a safe place is cheap insurance.

>If the hard drive crashes what would be the best way to bring the
>backed-up .gnupg directory back? Could it simply be copied back into
>place?

Yes.

Tony
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