Keeping .gnupg folder in cloud

flapflap flapflap at riseup.net
Thu Sep 18 17:37:29 CEST 2014


Robert J. Hansen:
>> What are your views on keeping .gnupg folder in cloud?
> 
> Potentially foolish, but not for the reason you might expect.

couldn't it also be that the owner/admin of the cloud makes changes to
the keyring? Like adding/removing keys. Dependent on the trust model
(like trust-always) this could be a very bad idea... Or it could result
in a DOS as the evil admin deleted the secret parts of some key pairs..

~flapflap




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