Printing Keys and using OCR.

[Andrew Berg]

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David Shaw wrote:
> Most of the storage media in use today do not have particularly
> good long-term (measured in years to decades) retention of data.
> If and when the CD-R and/or tape cassette and/or hard drive the
> secret key is stored on becomes unusable, the paper copy can be
> used to restore the secret key. If you have the passphrase but the
> secret key that it encrypted was on that bad CD-R, you have nothing
>
Aren't optical discs supposed to last for many decades if stored
properly and almost never used?

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Key ID: 0x60A78FCB - available on major keyservers and upon request
Fingerprint: 4A84 CAE2 A0D3 2AEB 71F6 07FD F88E 0340 60A7 8FCB
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