[144555] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: What will happen to your crypto keys when you die?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (silky)
Thu Jul 2 13:59:12 2009
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Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:29:30 +1000
From: silky <michaelslists@gmail.com>
To: Udhay Shankar N <udhay@pobox.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Udhay Shankar N<udhay@pobox.com> wrote:
> Udhay Shankar N wrote, [on 5/29/2009 9:02 AM]:
> > Fascinating discussion at boing boing that will probably be of interest
> > to this list.
> >
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/27/what-will-happen-to.html
>
> Followup article by Cory Doctorow:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/jun/30/data-protection-internet
A potentially amusing/silly solution would be to have one strong key
that you change monthly, and then, encrypt *that* key, with a method
that will be brute-forceable in 2 months and make it public. As long
as you are constantly changing your key, no-one will decrypt it in
time, but assuming you do die, they can potentially decrypt it while
arranging your funeral :)
>
> Udhay
> --
> ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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noon silky
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