Question about using additional keyrings

[Faramir]

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David Shaw escribió:

>> secret-keyring z:\gpghome\secring.gpg
>> (that's the location of the secring that has the unedited keys)
>>
>> But my question is: what does that line do? When it is in gpg.conf, do
>> I have the 2 secrings at the same time, or it replaces the usage of the
>> keyring located in gpghome with the one on my z drive?
> 
> Here's how it works: GPG allows for multiple public keyrings (via
> "keyring") and multiple secret keyrings (via "secret-keyring").  The
> default public keyring is $GNUPGHOME/pubring.gpg.  The default secret
> keyring is $GNUPGHOME/secring.gpg.  Any keyrings, public or secret, that
> you add are in addition to those defaults.  If you don't want the
> defaults to be present at all, use --no-default-keyring.
> 
> Thus in your case, you have two secret keyrings, unless there is a
> --no-default-keyring somewhere or $GNUPGHOME/secring.gpg does not exist.

  Ok, and if I also add another pubring file, and I download a public
key, where would it be stored? In the default keyring, or in the
additional one?

  By the way, I think there is an option in GPGShell to add the
- --no-default-keyring option

  Best Regards
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