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by kurthr 2979 days ago
The real risk is that whatever the key-holder thinks is air-gapped storage isn't and the whole lot is secretly lost to crackers, state sponsored or not... that's a lot harder to do with 1000 tons of paper.

The point is that even a dedicated party trying to keep the keys safe probably can't do it (for any length of time) on digital media.