storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?

[Joseph Oreste Bruni]

If you happen to be using Mac OS X, you can store encrypted bits of  
information in the Keychain. And if you have a .mac account, your  
keychain data can be automatically synchronized across systems.

-Joe


On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:20 AM, Jim Hendrick wrote:

> What you are doing works. But take a look at password safe (Bruce  
> Schneier &
> Counterpane labs). Also Password Gorilla (compatible w/ password safe)
>
> If you are truly paranoid, you could encrypt and email the safe  
> back and
> forth w/ gpg, or carry it on a USB stick.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org
>> [mailto:gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Nomen Nescio
>> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 9:30 AM
>> To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
>> Subject: storing password lists in mails to myself on IMAP?
>>
>>
>> I use thunderbird on my laptop and desktop with an IMAP
>> server, and I've been mailing myself encrypted mails with
>> website passwords so I have access to them on both computers.
>>
>> This is just as secure as encrypting a file and copying it
>> onto both computers without using e-mail as a medium, right?
>>
>> Or am I doing something stupid?
>>
>> thanks
>>
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