Re: Invalidate tarsnap key?

["J. Hellenthal via tarsnap-users" <tarsnap-users@tarsnap.com>]

Just nuke the key. Whatever way you have locally to permanently destroy all existing data should be plenty enough.

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J. Hellenthal

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> On Mar 17, 2022, at 10:17, Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to invalidate an existing tarsnap key so it cannot be
> used in future. I have a key for a decommissioned machine so it's no
> longer needed and hypothetically it could be used for DoS attack (by
> creating bogus archives and draining the account funds). Obviously this
> is impossible unless the key leaks somehow, but operational paranoia
> would suggest invalidating it would be a good idea.
> 
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