Getting GELI Keys from Floppy

[R. B. Riddick]

--- Bob Johnson <fbsdlists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Barkley Vowk <bvowk at math.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> > You are a complete madman. You want to protect your data with a key stored
> > on the most completely and utterly unreliable form of data storage still
> > lamentably in use? Its not the 1970's anymore, get a real data storage
> > medium!
> >
> I have floppies from the 1980s that are still readable, but I have
> never had a USB flash drive last more than six months when actually in
> use.  For important data, I trust a floppy far more than I trust a
> flash drive. The big problem with floppies is they don't hold enough
> data. For that matter, writeable CDs and DVDs have proven to be much
> less reliable than floppies, too.
> 
Furthermore Frank S. seems to plan to use a second kind of storage medium
(mostly optical) as a backup... If he administrates his backup media thoroughly
(exchange old media, re-do the backup, ...) he most likely will not have any
problems...

I personally currently store at least 3 copies of my papers, letters,
testimonies and other files on DVD-RW. Furthermore I do a backup from my
geom_mirror to a UFS on a regular partition every 10 minutes and from there a
copy to DVD-RW every 10 days (I think it is unlikely that both hard disc crash
within the same 3 hours (full-backup time), since they are from different
manufacturers)...

I wonder since several hours what is wrong with Mr. Barkley Vowk. Maybe that
canadian university(?) has a security problem? or so? Or a problem with
spelling? Mr. S. seems to be a GERman...

-Arne
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