Key storage

Teemu Likonen tlikonen at iki.fi
Tue Jan 1 08:30:20 CET 2019


justina colmena via Gnupg-users [2018-12-31 12:06:39-09] wrote:

> And now the *secret* keys are going in "~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg" with the
> false implication by its name that the file contains only public keys
> which need not be so carefully guarded against disclosure.

Secret keys are in directory ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d and each master
key and subkey is in separate file named by key's keygrip (see "gpg -K
--with-keygrip").

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