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Posted by Anthony T on March 7, 2007, 12:24 am
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Who cares if the key is destroyed. Just tell the cops that somehow the key
was destroyed. The evidence is the encrypted file, not the key. You never
destroyed any evidence.
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>> I have some sensitive files encrypted with GPG. I want to have the option
>> of quickly destroying the PGP keys for those files in case the files into
>> the wrong hands.
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>> Thumb drives look like they would be too hard to destroy. Printing the
>> keys on paper would be easy to destroy but OCR is too unreliable.
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>> Is there some other portable media which can easily be destroyed by
>> burning or shredding?
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> I think the previous serious replies are all good, but something here does
> not sound right.
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> Seems to me you are looking for something like 'flash paper' used by the
> numbers racket over the years. Written with a bar code printer, read with
> a grocery scanner.
> Quickly dosposed of, as far as I can tell, only has implications in
> international espionage or crime rings.
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> In the end, it will be obvious that you have taken steps to conceal
> something, and you get suspicion (guilt) by association.
> ....... ?
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> Stuart
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