Hi,
I've got an offsite backup of some of my data, in case my apartment burns down etc. Since I dont have full control of the backup machine, I encrypt my data using PGP/GPG, and then upload to the backup service host.
This is so far well and good.
The GPG private key is on the machine in my apartment, beside possibly a copy being on some old floppy or CD-R.
What happens if my apartment burns down? I will have my data backed up nice and snug on the backup service host. But since I cannot remember a 4096bit PGP private key pair, I would be in a bit of a bind.
Could anyobne please offer some strategies to overcome this?
I think someone on irc suggested some time ago that I mail my parents a copy of my key pair... but I'm not sure I'd want to do that (they might lose it).
Thanks
Srdjan