Protect pubring.gpg and secring.gpg

David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com
Sat Sep 6 00:02:59 CEST 2008


On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:16:10PM +0000, David Vegano wrote:
> 
> uhmm, i see...
> 
> and would I to encrypt the secring.gpg file? 
> 
> This form, if they intercept my passphrase (with a keylogger for example), they wouldn´t nothing to do.
> 
> It´s a goog idea encrypt secring.gpg file?

No need.  The keys in secring.gpg are already encrypted.  That's why
you need a passphrase to use them :)

David



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