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An A-Z character string written inside random page a book stored at a relative's house is a super easy way to secure a physical backup of your private key. You
by moftz 6y ago
An A-Z character string written inside random page a book stored at a relative's house is a super easy way to secure a physical backup of your private key. You could even get clever and encrypt the key using some memorable passage of another book. Since the book passage is unknown to anyone else and be selected from a near infinite pool of paragraphs from the entirety of all published books, it would be impossible for someone to bruteforce even if they found the book where you stored the encrypted key. This would be an easy enough process to generate the ciphertext and store it in the event that you totally lost access to all of your electronics, online accounts, and home.
- heavenlyblue 6y agoYou are not adding any more security than that if you simply remembering some random key (which isn’t that hard if you put your mind to it).
- ajdlinux 6y agoDon't forget the I and the A in the CIA triad, which are likely to be improved by keeping things recorded in writing.