Adventures in GPG (very little of which have to do with GPG)

[Tom Buskey]

On 3/19/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
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>   #4 was me being a Luddite, and paranoid.  I stored my private key on
> a floppy diskette.  I wanted removable media because the world's best
> firewall is a 2-inch air gap.  I used a floppy because it's still the
> most universal media out there.  This led to interesting challenges


You misspelled CDROM :-)

I have a number of old systems w/o CDs but a SCSI port for an external CD.
Most of my newer systems don't have a floppy.  I had to get a USB floppy
drive.

It'll be a sad day when CDs no longer have a device to play in.  I
consolidated lots of old floppy media to a few CDs.  I have hundreds of CDs
now.


> when it came to things like "How do I make a backup copy, with only
> one floppy drive?" and "Hmmm, can I use a RAM disk without worrying
> about data remanence due to the swap file?"  Being too close to the


Boot from a FreeDOS floppy.  copy a: b:

Create a temp truecrypt volume and work in that.  Delete it when you finish.

Boot Knoppix and dd the floppy to/from the RAM disk.  If you're truly
paranoid, remove the hard drive while you do this :-)

problem, it was some time before it occurred to me that I could use a
> $5 USB flash drive with floppy disks for backup, and get the best of
> both worlds.  Dope slap for me.


That works too.
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