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Re:If you didn't cancel the credit card you used for linode.... by tailrecursion on Thursday June 06, 2013 @03:34PM (#5834667)
twbrownaw is exactly right. If the private key is already in a secure location then there is no need to move it to a secure location. So, any report that the public keys were stored with the private keys means nothing by itself.
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Re:If you didn't cancel the credit card you used for linode.... by jmillikin on Thursday June 06, 2013 @03:49PM (#5834752)
You are arguing that storing the public and private key in a vault under the ocean is not less secure than just storing the private key there. While that is technically true, it's also missing the point.
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Re:If you didn't cancel the credit card you used for linode.... by icebraining on Thursday June 06, 2013 @03:58PM (#5834808)
How is it missing the point? It tells us that having "both keys in one directory" is, by itself, no evidence of insecurity by Linode.
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