Does GPG Ever Store RSA Secret Keys On The Disk In Plain?

Novak Boškov boskov at bu.edu
Tue Dec 22 00:47:15 CET 2020


It is gpg version 2.2.4 with libgcrypt 1.8.1.

So, the two subsequent exports are supposed to give me my private key
encrypted with two different AES keys (same passphrase + a different salt)?
How does transferring the keys to a different machine is supposed to
work then?

On 12/21/20 5:42 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:12, Novak Boškov said:
>
>> First, it looks like multiple exports _do_ result in the exactly same
>> export data:
> What version of GnuPG are you using?  A legacy 1.4 version or, worse,
> the unmaintained 2.0 version?
>
>
> Shalom-Salam,
>
>    Werner
>

-- 
Novak

On 12/21/20 5:53 PM, Novak Boškov wrote:
> So, the two subsequent exports are supposed to give me my private key
> encrypted with two different AES keys (same passphrase + a different salt)?
> How does transferring the keys to a different machine is supposed to
> work then?
>
> On 12/21/20 5:42 PM, Werner Koch wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 17:12, Novak Boškov said:
>>
>>> First, it looks like multiple exports _do_ result in the exactly same
>>> export data:
>> What version of GnuPG are you using?  A legacy 1.4 version or, worse,
>> the unmaintained 2.0 version?
>>
>>
>> Shalom-Salam,
>>
>>    Werner
>>
> -- Novak
-- 
    Novak Boškov
    /PhD Student/
    /Electrical & Computer Engineering Department/
    /Boston University/
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