Protect pubring.gpg and secring.gpg
Robert J. Hansen
rjh at sixdemonbag.org
Sat Sep 6 05:17:10 CEST 2008
Faramir wrote:
> I am not sure if the secring.gpg file is encrypted as a whole
> "thing", or if each key is individually encrypted.
Individually.
> And I don't know how strong is that encryption (GPG supports at least
> 7 cipher algorithms, and I don't know what algo it uses to store the
> keys).
As strong as any other symmetric algorithm in GnuPG. Stronger than you
need, in other words.
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