Re: Planning for Emergency restore

[jerry <jerry@tr2.com>]

So - sounds like reliability through redundancy is the hot
ticket.  I'll get a bunch of flash drives and stick an encrypted copy of 
the key in each one.  Put one in my car - one in my wife's car - one in 
each of my sheds, one in a storage unit I have...

... What if somebody breaks my encryption...?

...Will the tarsnap key still work without the first and
last lines?  The ones that say "# START OF TARSNAP KEY FILE" and "# END 
OF TARSNAP KEY FILE" ?

   Because without those lines, if somebody out there breaks the 
encryption, all he gets is a ball of mush with no obvious purpose.

                    - Jerry Kaidor

p.s.  I was thinking about fuse-programmable ROMs, but I don't think 
those are a thing anymore.   I still have
some old 2732 and 2764 EPROMs laying around, but I don't think I even 
have a programmer for them.