Questions about OpenPGP best practices

[Faramir]

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El 25-02-2013 19:54, Peter Loshin escribió:
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> 2. On keeping an encrypted backup of my secret key material, what 
> method is recommended for doing that? (Presumably something like
> "gpg --export-secret-keys | gpg --output secretkeymatter.gpg
> --symmetric"?)

  You can use Paperkey utility to print you secret key (still
protected by its passphrase). Paperkey removes the public key
information from the secret key and prints it in a way that makes it
very easy to OCR it or manual type it in case you need the backup. You
will need your public key to restore the private key, but if you
uploaded it to key servers, it is very likely you won't have troubles
to find a copy of it.

  Best Regards
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