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Had a real scare today about losing my gpg key.
It turned out I did have the 3 of 5 shares needed to get it back, but I only realized that after trying to undelete secring.gpg, and after successfully restoring the key from .gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/, where gpg2 had helpfully stashed a copy.
Whew! Need to add a printout in a safe somewhere.
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I heard steam patched that bug where removing steam could rm -rf / instead of rm -rf .steam/
shares (I assume Shamir Secret Sharing or something along the lines, you mentioned this before)? How/where did you end up distributing the shares? git-annex?
That's ok. I've lost many keys. It has never mattered for more than a month or two. shrug
I tried to value the loss of my gpg key, and estimate it's worth around $10k to me. (Only a fraction being easy to value bitcoin.)
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