Keeping .gnupg folder in cloud

[Werner Koch]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2014 16:04, rjh at sixdemonbag.org said:

> But the .gnupg folder contains a few sensitive files, such as
> random_seed.  If you publish your random seed, it's theoretically
> possible for someone to determine the internal state of your random

In the case of session keys, this is true.  For generating public keys,
I doubt that this will help: We update the internal 4800 bit RNG state
with 2400 fresh random bits before the key is generated.

But right, there are other files which should not be published.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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