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On 10/05/10 21:32, John Gorentz wrote: > At 07:56 PM 10/5/2010, STeve Andre' wrote: > > >> Even more wretched, paper is the longest term storage solution that >> humanity has yet come up with. > > Cuneiforms on baked clay tablets have greater bandwidth than engraving > on granite. But they are not quite as permanent a backup medium. As > for privacy, forget it. Most encryption schemes have been broken. > That's a problem with encoding your ideas into a system of fixed > symbols, whether alphabetic or some other system of glyphs. If you > want privacy as well as long-term storage, you might want to consider > cave painting. People are still trying to figure out what those mean > after 30,000 years, even though the public key is in plain sight. > Pictures have that advantage over words. Think of some of the GUI > interfaces that try to get by without using words on menu items, or > some of the universal signs you might see marking the parts on the > dashboard of your car. They make for a great encryption system -- > tough to crack. Cave paintings are like back to the future, so for > present storage needs you might consider going forward to the past. > > John Gorentz I sit corrected, and should have remembered it myself. I shudder to think of the bit density of cuneiforms. Still, paper has the best record of holding important info over the centuries. --STeve Andre'