Re: [Duplicity-talk] recovering

[Kenneth Loafman]

Olivier Croquette wrote:
> Michael Baierl wrote, On 17/01/08 7:59:
>> Nope, that's the benefit of having GPG encryption - your backups are
>> safe. And the tutorials mention many times that you should store your
>> key also in a safe location...
> 
> One alternative is to use a passphrase and no key, I am not sure how
> safe it is, but a passphrase can be remembered.

If you have a long enough passphrase, then it should be secure.  The
advantage of a key is that it can be used to authenticate when a human
is not present.

So, unless you have friends at NSA who are willing to admit to and use
their cracking abilities, I would say there is no way.

One suggestion I would make is to get a USB memory stick, install an
encrypted filesystem, with a passphrase, then store a copy of all your
keys on that.

...Ken

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