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> And the passphrase is: at 5,21 which is the 5th line on page 21 of your favorite book Yeah, it's one of those things that you'll forget in N years. That's ex

> And the passphrase is: at 5,21 which is the 5th line on page 21 of your favorite book Yeah, it's one of those things that you'll forget in N years. That's exactly what prompted "where do you keep secret.txt" question.

jcynix 1y ago
As of now I have to care for my (digital) backups, that is, I cannot ignore them for N years. I had to copy things from discettes to magnetic tape, from tape to hard drives, etc. I have to periodically check my backups if they are restorable. That's life. It's the same for documents, as for secrets, which I have to transfer from one medium to another, I have to check that I remember secrets and passphrases. And places. As I already said, that's life.
- seb1204 1y ago
  You can also choose to let it die, or get forgotten.
sayamqazi 1y ago
Some people are lucky with memory that works extremely well with numbers. My memory is average but when it comes to numbers, I remember serial numbers of certain products, enrollment numbers etc from more than a decade ago. HP-L170 (A monitor I bought) QW4HD-DQCRG-HM64M-6GJRK-8K83T (Windows XP key) 10396-9 (My enrollment number for board exam) I remember a bunch of long-ago-abandoned phone numbers as well.
- catlikesshrimp 1y ago
  >>My memory is average but when it comes to numbers... Where I live, memorizing a 25 char alphanumeric is not average. It's not more, either.
- smsm42 1y ago
  I could probably remember one or two things like that key, but retaining it over the years would be questionable... I used some of my favorite quotes as the passphrases for some of my crypto wallets, and once spent an annoying week when it turned out I misremembered one of them and lost access to some bitcoin. Not a huge value - it's about $1k worth now - but still unpleasant, and I had to spend quite some time figuring out how to recover it (fortunately, it worked). So since then I'm more careful about "I'll surely remember it" thing.

jcynix 1y ago

As of now I have to care for my (digital) backups, that is, I cannot ignore them for N years. I had to copy things from discettes to magnetic tape, from tape to hard drives, etc. I have to periodically check my backups if they are restorable. That's life. It's the same for documents, as for secrets, which I have to transfer from one medium to another, I have to check that I remember secrets and passphrases. And places. As I already said, that's life.

seb1204 1y ago
You can also choose to let it die, or get forgotten.

sayamqazi 1y ago

Some people are lucky with memory that works extremely well with numbers. My memory is average but when it comes to numbers, I remember serial numbers of certain products, enrollment numbers etc from more than a decade ago. HP-L170 (A monitor I bought) QW4HD-DQCRG-HM64M-6GJRK-8K83T (Windows XP key) 10396-9 (My enrollment number for board exam) I remember a bunch of long-ago-abandoned phone numbers as well.

catlikesshrimp 1y ago
>>My memory is average but when it comes to numbers... Where I live, memorizing a 25 char alphanumeric is not average. It's not more, either.
smsm42 1y ago
I could probably remember one or two things like that key, but retaining it over the years would be questionable... I used some of my favorite quotes as the passphrases for some of my crypto wallets, and once spent an annoying week when it turned out I misremembered one of them and lost access to some bitcoin. Not a huge value - it's about $1k worth now - but still unpleasant, and I had to spend quite some time figuring out how to recover it (fortunately, it worked). So since then I'm more careful about "I'll surely remember it" thing.