SLUG Mailing List Archives - Re: [SLUG] key management for pgp keys

To: Ken Foskey <foskey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] key management for pgp keys
From: Andrew Cowie <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 08:34:05 +1100
Cc: SLUG <slug@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Organization: Operational Dynamics

On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 22:15, Ken Foskey wrote:
> If we have their public key installed

You meant "private" here, right? 

> Any other thoughts on how to protect the keys?

Keychain sized USB flash drive which the secret keychain is carried on?

Also - if you used symmetric encryption throughout (PGP supports, gpg
option -c) then it would just be a conventional matter of remembering
the encryption passphrase as opposed to public/private key management
issues.

AfC

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