Jeffrey F. Bloss :
> Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
>
>> Derek Broughton spake thusly:
>>> Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
>>>
>>>> Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I just lost my USB thumbdrive in an
Internet Cafe.
>>>>> And it contains my private PGP key.
Luckily I have a backup.
>>>> By all definitions those keys are now
compromised, and you should
>>>> submit the revocation certificates you
previously created to all the
>>>> appropriate people and places.
>>>>
>>>> Um, you *did* create revocation
certificates when you generated the
>>>> keys, and secret them away for just such an
occasion... right? ;)
>>>>
>>> The problem with this is that I can never
remember where the hell the
>>> revocation certificates are...
>> I had that problem too. That's why I have several
keys that I don't use
>> anymore floating around teh Internets.
>>
>> The last time around, I just burned everything to a
CD-R and labled the
>> CD-R with something obscure.
>
> Security through obscurity...
>
> Opinions vary. 
Like I said in the previos post, "they" would be
more interested in my
computer and in that case I'd be SOL anyway.
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