Multiple email addresses - any alternative to ask everyone to sign all my keys?

[Martin]

@Chris: That still leaves the problem of having to enter the passphrase for
the key on the untrusted machine, which might have a keylogger, doesn't it?




On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Christopher J. Walters <cwal989 at comcast.net
> wrote:

> On 7/23/2013 3:55 PM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
>
>> Am 23.07.2013 21:04, schrieb Heinz Diehl:
>>
>>> On 23.07.2013, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
>>>
>>>  Of course it is annoying to have to ask everyone to sign three keys -
>>>> after all they are all my keys, and the people I ask to sign my key all
>>>> get to see the same passport. Is there a better alternative?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Create/use one key, and add all the different addresses.
>>>
>>>  I do not consider my university computer safe enough to trust it with
>>>> the private key for my private mail.
>>>>
>>>
>>> In this case, why should anybody else trust in the integrity of your
>>> identity? If you don't trust this machine, revoke the key and don't do
>>> anything confidential on/with it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That's not a practical solution. I want to be able to read encrypted
>> mail sent to my university addresses on that machine.
>>
>> Philipp
>>
>
> While it is generally considered good policy to use any cryptographic
> software on a computer you do not trust, given your reason for wanting to
> use GnuPG on the untrusted university computer, I have a suggestion.
>
> Make a Live GnuPG USB thumb drive - make sure that you set the default
> path to be the USB drive, and not the HDD of the university computer.  Thus
> all of your keys would be on the USB drive and none on the untrusted
> computer.  If your private keys are already on the untrusted computer, then
> I can only suggest revoking them and creating new ones on a trusted
> computer - with the keyrings stored on the Live GnuPG USB drive.
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
>
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