GnuPG neophyte inquiries.

[Mark H. Wood]

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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Qed wrote:
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> On 08/20/2006 07:31 AM, Caitlin wrote:
>> 1). My roommate and I share a WinXP box. If I install GnuPG 1.4.5 on
>> it, would this represent a potential security concern?
> Your keyring would be stored in your personal home dir, if you have
> installed XP on a NTFS partition(i.e.: permissions are enabled)

Assuming they spent the extra $100 for XP Professional rather than the XP 
Toy^wHome edition that comes with most PCs (which has only the 
protection-free VFAT).

- -- 
Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood at IUPUI.Edu
Typically when a software vendor says that a product is "intuitive" he
means the exact opposite.

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