Comment by mbwgh
4 years ago
I keep putting off the decision on how to store my private keys remotely in case of disaster, and this looks like a good and very pragmatic solution. Thanks for creating this!
My first reaction was "why not a password-protected zip" and you already linked to a relevant stackexchange question. I think it might be helpful to add a "Why not a password-protected zip/rar/7zip/..." on your page when you have time for it.
Or maybe even explicitly make clear which security goals (confidentiality, integrity, etc.) are satisfied by this. The reason being of course that I would like to show this to colleagues/friends and not having to debate this myself :)
> "Why not a password-protected zip/rar/7zip/..." on your page
Great suggestion!
> not having to debate this myself
eh eh.. good luck with that...
I think the problem is that it can be used "good" and can be used "bad". Some people focus/fixate on the ways you can shoot yourself in the foot with this. Other think of the good use cases it enables.