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|    August Abolins to Wilfred van Velzen    |
|    Key management could be a nightmare    |
|    05 Jan 20 18:04:26    |
      MSGID: 2:221/360.0 5e120904       REPLY: 2:280/464 5e11d334       PID: JamNNTPd/OS2 1.3 20191208       TID: GE/2 1.2       CHRS: IBMPC 2       TZUTC: 0200       On 1/5/2020 7:12 AM, between "Wilfred van Velzen : August Abolins":               AA>> I could email the secret keys between my devices, but I        AA>> don't like the idea that email in general is in the clear        AA>> and the isp/systems enroute can cache and record anything.               WvV> You can use a common storage place, either on your own        WvV> network or external lile dropbox. If that's an encrypted        WvV> place (I don't know if dropbox is by default?) that would        WvV> be even better.              Hello Wilfred!              I have an option for my Blackberry. I can send it through my own wi-fi       connections to a file directory on the device. But I have to do it from       my Win7 pc desktop which is at a remote location. :(                      AA>> The passphrase is fairly decent. I am confident that no one        AA>> would be able to guess it.               WvV> Than it doesn't matter too much what you use to exchange        WvV> the secret key files.              Nah.. Even if the secret key were sent with Gmail for example, its copy       would be grabbed and stored in the cloud forever. The "they" people       could then feed the key to their petra flop computers to try and crack it.              I think it is absolutely imperative to never transfer a secret key       through a transfer mechanism that I don't have exclusive control over.               ../|ug              --- Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228)        * Origin: nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi - Lake Ylo - Finland (2:221/360.0)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 19/10 90/1 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 360 227/114 229/426       SEEN-BY: 229/1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31       SEEN-BY: 317/3 322/757 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 712/848 770/1 2452/250       PATH: 221/360 1 280/464 229/426           |
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