From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 19:45:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200611111945.34059.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4555CB38.2090009@buanzo.com.ar>
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On Saturday 11 November 2006 13:08, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > As the hardware is approaching the end of its useful life I wanted to
> > move away from my dependence on Psion, or use another method in parallel.
> > I have of course gpg on my laptop, but I am concerned that I will be
> > keeping both my private key and the encrypted file on the same machine.
>
> You also need the passphrase to unlock the private key, so, as far as you
> use big enough keys, and good enough passphrases, your mind can't be hacked
> into (oh well, depends on torture, but...)
He, he! :)
I was thinking of memory dumps being accessed by malicious software/entities?
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-11 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-11 12:35 [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info Mick
2006-11-11 13:08 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
2006-11-11 19:45 ` Mick [this message]
2006-11-11 13:35 ` Fabrice Delliaux
2006-11-11 19:46 ` Mick
2006-11-12 0:14 ` Andrey
2006-11-13 5:58 ` Javier
2006-11-13 7:00 ` Mick
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