Ask HN: How do you backup your private keys?

Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your private keys? by jb510 on Friday December 25, 2015 @09:50AM (#10791344)

I put them in my password manager (1Password) as a secure note, and then put its encrypted data file in DropBox. I wish I trusted DropBox a bit more these days (Condolezza), but I trust 1P's data file encryption and having that whole password archive cloud accessible has saved my butt more than once, once for SSH keys.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you backup your private keys? by mgreenly on Friday December 25, 2015 @11:57AM (#10791625)

I also make mine available online but do it a bit different.

I have a public dotfiles project on Github. In addition to my dotfiles it includes a symmetrically encrypted tarfile of a secrets folder that contains keys and other sensitive info.

To recover my keys I only need access to github, gpg and the password for the encrypted tarfile.

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