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Re: additional security (II)
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 13:54:13 +0100
Gabriel Kerneis <gabriel@kerneis.info> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:47:00PM +0000, tarsnap wrote:
> > But my original question stays: Is it possible to copy/paste the key
> > when needed in the terminal?
>
> Provided you trust scrypt [1]:
>
> If the --passphrased option is specified, the user will be
> prompted to enter a passphrase (twice) to be used to encrypt the key
> file. <URL: http://www.tarsnap.com/man-tarsnap-keymgmt.1.html>
Yes, that would be good enough.
Because of course we trust scrypt, otherwise 'trusting' tarsnap wouldn't make
sense. Thanks for delivering the solution
> Best,
> -- Gabriel
>
> [1] <URL: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt.html>