Need tips on how to backup my keys

[vedaal at hush.com]

Steven Woody narkewoody at gmail.com wrote on
Thu Jan 24 14:38:33 CET 2008 :

>I believe I need to make a copy of my keys 
>( the whole of ~/.gnugp directory, right? ).

no,
just:
pubring.gpg 
secring.gpg
trustdb.gpg


>But where should I keep the copy?


if you need access on a 24/7 basis,
*and* you use a good random passphrase

(http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html

use at least 10 diceware words if you are planning the following,
20 words if you want the full complexity of a 256 bit symmetrical 
algorithm)

then you can zip the files together,
and symmetrically encrypt them in armored form,
and keep it in your gmail mailbox as an unsent draft

(make sure you remember your passphrase ;-))

vedaal

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