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When deciding to encrypt, lets say a backup, you need to ask yourself, is the data better lost then in the hands of the wrong people.
by z3t4 10y ago
When deciding to encrypt, lets say a backup, you need to ask yourself, is the data better lost then in the hands of the wrong people.
- pacaro 10y agoAnother way to look at this, is to ask yourself what your threat model is. For example, if your primary concern is losing your laptop while traveling, then writing down your pass phrase and keeping it with other important paperwork (tax returns, property deeds, birth certificate etc) in a home safe or a bank safety deposit box seems totally reasonable. If you have concerns about Protecting your data from law enforcement, then the pass phrase needs to be stored out of the reach of a warrant - a trickier proposition.
- userbinator 10y agoIndeed. Good data encryption is also far stronger than the things like locks that people make analogies to in the real world. There is essentially no locksmith. If you lose the key, your data is gone forever. As illustrated by this article, if you have weak passphrases there are ways around it, so I suppose it is possible to "tune" the strength of your encryption that way.
- caf 10y agoI think the implication wasn't that the passphrase was weak, but that it was mostly known.