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The largest danger is not the key getting hacked IMO, it's the service that you are backing up to going under. If you had a yahoo email account twenty years ag
by zwevgzewgzv 8y ago
The largest danger is not the key getting hacked IMO, it's the service that you are backing up to going under.
If you had a yahoo email account twenty years ago, and emailed yourself a encrypted password vault, and decided to try to check that email today, how confident are you that it would be there?
What about in 10 more years?
- Someone1234 8y agoMost services, including LastPass let you export your database. In LastPass's case you have the choice of CSV or their own format for "LastPass Pocket" (designed for USB Sticks) or any SQLite compatible tool. Plus what happens if this Blockchain provider goes under? Unless you have the last version of the chain stored or know someone personally who does, then you're just out of luck. There's no service to even help you find peers to locate a working copy.
- geofft 8y agoI feel like I sign up for websites often enough that I need to access my password vault more often than once every 20 years. When I do that, I can just store it in the most convenient service for me at the time - even sending it to my current email provider would work. Also, storing my passwords publicly for 20-30 years is probably an antifeature: if you stored encrypted passwords with a state-of-the-art algorithm from 1998, and it were publicly accessible the whole time, how confident are you that it can't be brute-forced right now for $100 of public cloud?