Backing up your PGP key by hand

[Johan Wevers]

On 2022-05-23 5:01, Stuart Longland via Gnupg-users wrote:

> On the other hand, there are paper recordings that have lasted millennia.

Since paper as we know it today doesn't even exist so long that can't be
true. Maybe you are pointing to the few surviving papyrus texts? Most
have not survived.

If you really care about such long preservation, carving the key into
stone or baking it in a clay tablet are the only known methods that can
reliably store data for so long (also because other methods don't exist
for so long).

Even if the USB stick lasts for millennia, there may not be a reader for
it around at that time.

-- 
ir. J.C.A. Wevers
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html