Suggestion

Frank Tobin ftobin@uiuc.edu
Sat Feb 17 15:00:00 2001


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Stefan Bellon, at 11:19 +0100 on Sat, 17 Feb 2001, wrote:

    I think it would be a nice addition if GnuPG asked for your passphrase
    when exporting the secret key with --export-secret-key. I know that it
    is not necessary, but it would make it safer against misuse as the key
    couldn't be extracted unattended, ... IYSWIM.

If you're trying to make this a "security measure", then your attacker
could copy your whole secret keyring file instead of having GnuPG export a
particular key.

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Frank Tobin		http://www.uiuc.edu/~ftobin/
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