Secure Short Term Archiving

There is a lot of good info on this site about long term storage, but what about short term where security is an issue. I'm thinking about things like in house or public SSL/PKI keys or password lists where a replacement is not possible or not feasible.

These things are small enough that multiple copies is not a problem, but the more copies the more opportunity there is for someone to break the encryption and limiting copies means you really have to be sure not to lose it.

At the moment, we burn the encrypted data to CD and a USB stick and put them in a safe deposit box.

What kind of media would you use? And where/how would you store it?

The Diamond Z

• storage-media
• security

Comments

• gmcgath: This isn't really a digital preservation question. It would be more appropriate for an encryption forum.
• The Diamond Z: I'm not asking about encryption but rather what media is appropriate for such a situation. For SSL/PKI let's say it's the secret recipe for New Coke 2012? Or anything digital that has an expiry date.
• Ben Fino-Radin: I don't think this question was off topic, and there is a good digital preservation question in there. However, it could have been articulated more clearly. When asking a question – it is great to have the contextual information in a paragraph / narrative form, but be sure that your actual question at the end is in a complete sentence form that includes all the info you are requesting, rather than "What kind of media would you use?" for example. The question portion should be able to stand on its own. This ll help articulate your need, and prevent closure for mistaken "off-topic" identity.
• Adam-E: I think there's potential in this question, but as @BenFino-Radin said, needs more detail, at which point I'd vote to reopen