different keys for different machine?

[Thomas Arend]

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Am Dienstag, 28. Januar 2003 19:03 schrieb Matt Wronkiewicz:
> > Should i simply move my key pair to all of my machines or make
> > new one's on each machine?
>
> You will encounter problems if you have multiple keys with the
> same email address. One potential problem is that someone who
> wants to send you an encrypted message will have to choose
> between several keys to encrypt to. If you retrieve this message
> on a machine that does not have the corresponding private key,
> then you are stuck.
>
> On the other hand, if one or more of these computers is not as
> secure as the others, such as a computer at your office that you
> do not have control over, you may want to keep a separate, low
> security key on that machine. In this case you would want to
> generate a revocation certificate and keep it secure in case
> someone gets into your files.

Maybe a memory-stick and linking ~/.gnupg to the memory stick on every ma=
chine=20
would do in sthis case.  This requires the permission to mout the memory=20
stick.


Thomas
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