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[Discuss] Sharing gnupg keyring among computers



On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 11:20:43AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> There are a number of considerations such as encrypted file systems. In the
> past I used my personal laptop as an auxiliary system and since I carried
> it to blu meetings and installfests I did not put secure stuff on there.
> But recently I'm using my laptop more and more.
> 
> So as a discussion I would like to get some discussion. My thought for me
> is to:
> Use my desktop .gnupg as a master, but copy it securely to my laptop.
> 
> And certainly it is good to create a backup on removable media.

You could use something like YubiKey to store GPG keys.



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