ssh clarification needed

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sun Jan 4 20:25:24 UTC 2009


On Sun, 2009-01-04 at 14:03 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 04 January 2009 13:40:23 Ambrogio wrote:
> > On dom, 2009-01-04 at 11:43 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > I feel unsafe about storing keys on a laptop that is going to travel, so
> > > I'll need to read up on storing them on a usb stick.  At least losing the
> > > stick will not make the connection unsafe :-) - I'm unlikely to lose the
> > > laptop and stick at the same time.
> >
> > hmmmm
> > laptop without keys are unusefull to connect to your servers, but keys
> > without laptop are useful
> >
> Hmm - Is there no reasonably safe way of doing this?  There seems to be some 
> risk with everything.   I've not lost a usb stick yet, but one can never 
> guarantee that one won't.
Are you suggesting that decrypting the ssh keys are a feasable activity?
I doubt it.
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