KeePass or any other password wallet to store and transport keys

Doug Barton dougb at dougbarton.us
Sun Jul 22 03:46:57 CEST 2012


On 07/21/2012 16:26, antispam06 at sent.at wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012, at 14:12, Doug Barton wrote:
>> On 07/20/2012 08:51, antispam06 at sent.at wrote:
>>> I don't know much about security and cryptography. So what do you think
>>> about this combination? Is it any safer or is just a waste of time with
>>> the conversion to ASCII and back?
>>
>> We can't answer this question intelligently because you haven't
>> described your threat model. In other words, what danger would the
>> wallet guard against?
> 
> Hmm… that's an excellent question. I never formulated it this way. I
> guess computer theft. The other possible scenarios are far less
> probable.

Still doesn't answer the question. :) What bad thing are you worried
about happening if someone gets your keyring?

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