On Tue, 5 Dec 2006 17:11, hawke at hawkesnest.net said: > Is it possible to control/disable this behavior? I prefer to keep my > ssh keys only on a USB disk, and not have them copied to any machine on > which I happen to load them. Make a ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ a symlink to your USB disk. Salam-Shalom, Werner