Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:41:48 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Richard Childers <rchilders@hamquist.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reading files. Message-ID: <37655AFC.D58D456F@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990614140451.8308A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <3765537B.6D0BC801@3-cities.com> <376557C2.3230DC3B@hamquist.com>
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Richard Childers wrote: > > Don't forget that PGP is exactly as secure as the filesystem on which > your key(s) reside ... That was really my whole point on PGP. When you have the key somewhere besides memory, someone else can find it and a 128-bit key is really hard to remember and enter properly. I think a Jaz 2GB that you store in a guarded, locked safe is my idea of file security. Kent > > -- richard > > Richard Childers > Senior UNIX Systems Administrator & Chief Bottle Washer > Hambrecht & Quist, LLC > (415) 439-3838 > > Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > As a backup operator, I think I could backup your files and restore them > > on a different system. Then you wouldn't know I have accessed your > > files. I've never backed up a user's files on one system and restored > > them to another system but I have never seen anything that would prevent > > me from doing that. I may have to add the user to that system but then I > > would know the password and it would be trivial. > > > > The problem with PGP is that by the time you have a pretty good key it > > will be easy to forget and then you have lost access to your file. > > > > Kent > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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