[ale] A response to Apple v DoJ

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 11:45 -0500, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> On 02/25/16 11:19, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > 
> > And backups defeat the purpose of the dead man switch. It's really
> > a
> > catch-22 situation. You would need a secret backup with it's own
> > dead
> > man switch. Miss one scheduled backup time and the clock starts
> > ticking.
> > Make the backups from the phone manual.
> 
> True, but I get to choose the encryption for the backups, not some
> vendor. Thinking blowfish with a 448bit key length. Definitely avoid
> AES.
But the holes and backdoors in AES make it run Sooooo much faster!
I saw a 2048 bit key printed out once using bar codes. Scan them back
in in the correct order and you have the private key restored.
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