GNUpg 1.0.6

Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
Thu Jun 7 16:31:01 2001


"Remco Lubbers" <rpl@wanadoo.nl> writes:


> I've got 2 machines and installed the SuSE 1.0.6 rpm on both, so I
> needed to export my secret keys from machine 1 in order to use them
> on machine 2. But GPG never asked me for a passphrase during these
> actions. So I could simply export my secret keys and import them on
> my other machine, no questions asked. Is that normal?
Yes, it's normal. After all, you can just copy the secret key ring to another machine, and you won't have to enter a passphrase either. -- Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898