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Re: Planning for Emergency restore



On 2021-04-04 11:39, Dave Cottlehuber wrote:

For the truly paranoid, combine:

- [1] shamir's secret sharing algorithm to split your secret into N shards
*** Ouch.  I don't think I'm *that* paranoid.  I mostly worry about 
being unable to do it. In the heat of battle, so to speak.
  How about this:  A couple hundred copies of the key ( encrypted ) on 
an M-disc.  On the remainder of the M-disc, a Linux distribution with 
everything needed to restore my data from the tarsnap cloud.  And a big 
README file with all the general data I'd have forgotten about how to do 
it.  Or just a big shell script to do it for me :).
                  - Jerry