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August 02, 2011, 11:11:52 AM |
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I ask this only half seriously.
Would it be sensible to ask of our exchanges and online wallets that they post a regularly-updated link to an encrypted version of the wallet.dat that they use?
Is the encryption from, say, GnuPG, solid enough that we could trust that it wouldn't be broken, while at the same time making us all feel a little more secure that a mybitcoin/bitomat situation at least has a potential resolution in the event of a catastrophic failure?
I suspect that anyone who implemented such a policy wouldn't ever need to take advantage of it (having done the work, you would certainly make it email you a copy of the backup as well) -- but it would publicly demonstrate that a backup exists, making us all feel a little more secure (only a little though).
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