From: Adamsc@io-online.com (Adamsc)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 23:14:14 -0700 (PDT)
To: "(Rollo Silver)" <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: Why not PGP?
Message-ID: <19961012061308687.AAA242@GIGANTE>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:40:31 -0800, jim bell wrote:

>>I don't intend to submit my present or future private PGP keys for key
>>escrow (Is that what's called GAK?). To protect myself against forgetting
>>my private key (which has happened once already) I'll no doubt some day put
>>it on a floppy and put the floppy in my bank safe deposit box.

>You still have to "remember" that long, non-memorizable key, although 
>something like that can be written on paper and well-hidden and/or split up 
>into parts.  It's only value is to decrypt that bank-stored floppy.

It'd be only 256 bytes or 512 hex digits.  If it was *that* important, you
_could_ memorize it!  After all, some monks memorized the entire Bible.  I
knew guys who had pi memorized to over 300 places....



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