Anonymous wrote:
> I have some sensitive files encrypted with GPG. I want to have the option of quickly destroying the PGP keys for those files in case the files into the wrong hands.
>
> Thumb drives look like they would be too hard to destroy. Printing the keys on paper would be easy to destroy but OCR is too unreliable.
>
> Is there some other portable media which can easily be destroyed by burning or shredding?

The more 'easily destroyable' your key is, the more likely it will
accidentally be destroyed...

Floppy disks may be the the answer. The innards can be accessed in a
fairly short time and burning would render them unreadable. Shredding
would render them unreadable to all but the most well-resourced attacker.

Why not encrypt file with a standard single file encryption/ partition
encryption and use a strong password/passphrase? That way you will not
need to destry GPG keys, you just don't give the password.

This does raise an interesting question. What _would_ be the best way to
store data that is secure, yet destroyable?

Bogwitch