[ubuntu-uk] Sharing PGP Keys

Ciaran Mooney general.mooney at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 21 10:36:22 GMT 2009


> The other option is to have one GPG keypair but keep it on an encrypted
> USB key or something similar. That way you can mount the key when you
> start using the laptop and unmount it when you're done and you don't
> need to worry about leaving your keys lying around. You can symlink
> ~/.gpg to the directory on the key where your keypair is stored.

Again I would only do this with computers you trust. The
ultra-paranoid elf in my head says, whats stopping a hidden process on
that computer copying the contents of all pen drives attached? Being
encrypted would make no difference once it is mounted on the system.



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