Safe transfer via USB devices

Stefan Claas stefan.claas at posteo.de
Mon Oct 9 22:40:14 CEST 2017


On Mon, 9 Oct 2017 18:05:20 +0000, listo factor via Gnupg-users wrote:
> Use a USB floppy disk reader/writer and shred the floppies with 
> cleartext after the use. Writing sensitive cleartext to USB flash 
> "drives" that could potentially fall into the adversary's hands
> should be avoided.

Thank you very much for the tip! I thought that floppy disks would
be no longer available, but a quick search on Amazon revealed that
they are still for sale.

Regards
Stefan

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