From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jun 14 12:24:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from sfmailrelay.hamquist.com (sfmailrelay2.hamquist.com [199.108.89.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7147B14D1A for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:24:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rchilders@hamquist.com) Received: from 172.19.6.48 by sfmailrelay.hamquist.com with SMTP ( WorldSecure Server SMTP Relay(WSS) v3.2 SR1); Mon, 14 Jun 99 12:23:45 -0700 X-Server-Uuid: c29e0ff2-e8b9-11d1-a493-00c04fbbd7d3 Received: from hamquist.com ([172.19.6.230]) by sfmail.hamquist.com ( Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2DD7; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 15:24:11 -0400 Message-ID: <376557C2.3230DC3B@hamquist.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:28:02 -0700 From: "Richard Childers" Organization: hambrecht & quist, llc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cc: Subject: Re: reading files. References: <3765537B.6D0BC801@3-cities.com> X-WSS-ID: 1B7B894B192839-01-02 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Don't forget that PGP is exactly as secure as the filesystem on which your key(s) reside ... -- richard Richard Childers Senior UNIX Systems Administrator & Chief Bottle Washer Hambrecht & Quist, LLC (415) 439-3838 Kent Stewart wrote: > > As a backup operator, I think I could backup your files and restore them > on a different system. Then you wouldn't know I have accessed your > files. I've never backed up a user's files on one system and restored > them to another system but I have never seen anything that would prevent > me from doing that. I may have to add the user to that system but then I > would know the password and it would be trivial. > > The problem with PGP is that by the time you have a pretty good key it > will be easy to forget and then you have lost access to your file. > > Kent > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message