Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 12:28:02 -0700 From: "Richard Childers" <rchilders@hamquist.com> To: <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: reading files. Message-ID: <376557C2.3230DC3B@hamquist.com> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990614140451.8308A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu> <3765537B.6D0BC801@3-cities.com>
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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
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