article about Air Gapped OpenPGP Key

[Johan Wevers]

On 19-11-2013 7:07, Robert J. Hansen wrote:

> Even then, scrubbing data is usually a sign you've misunderstood the
> problem you're trying to solve.  If you're concerned about sensitive
> data lurking on your hard drive the solution isn't to scrub the drive,
> it's to use an encrypted filesystem.

That depends on your threat model. If you fear juridical problems (say,
for example, some encrypted mails have been intercepted by the police
but they can't decrypt them), destroying the key will prevent you from
having to hand it over. In some jurisdictions this may be seen as
"contempt of court", and even be punishable, but in most EU countries
you're safe when you do this.

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ir. J.C.A. Wevers
PGP/GPG public keys at http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/pgpkeys.html