Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 08:31:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de> Subject: Re: Getting GELI Keys from Floppy Message-ID: <20060907153123.53718.qmail@web30310.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <54db43990609070759u25e58d28t8d08c52c9df3c765@mail.gmail.com>
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--- Bob Johnson <fbsdlists@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9/6/06, Barkley Vowk <bvowk@math.ualberta.ca> wrote: > > You are a complete madman. You want to protect your data with a key stored > > on the most completely and utterly unreliable form of data storage still > > lamentably in use? Its not the 1970's anymore, get a real data storage > > medium! > > > I have floppies from the 1980s that are still readable, but I have > never had a USB flash drive last more than six months when actually in > use. For important data, I trust a floppy far more than I trust a > flash drive. The big problem with floppies is they don't hold enough > data. For that matter, writeable CDs and DVDs have proven to be much > less reliable than floppies, too. > Furthermore Frank S. seems to plan to use a second kind of storage medium (mostly optical) as a backup... If he administrates his backup media thoroughly (exchange old media, re-do the backup, ...) he most likely will not have any problems... I personally currently store at least 3 copies of my papers, letters, testimonies and other files on DVD-RW. Furthermore I do a backup from my geom_mirror to a UFS on a regular partition every 10 minutes and from there a copy to DVD-RW every 10 days (I think it is unlikely that both hard disc crash within the same 3 hours (full-backup time), since they are from different manufacturers)... I wonder since several hours what is wrong with Mr. Barkley Vowk. Maybe that canadian university(?) has a security problem? or so? Or a problem with spelling? Mr. S. seems to be a GERman... -Arne --- "DYSLEXIA FOR CURE FOUND" __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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