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<p>Hell everyone,<br>
<br>
On this <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/c481.html#:~:text=To%20help%20safeguard%20your%20key,passphrase%20to%20access%20the%20key.">link</a>
is the following statement:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">To help safeguard your key, GnuPG
does not store your raw private key on disk. Instead it
encrypts it using a symmetric encryption algorithm.<span><br>
</span></span></blockquote>
However, I'm not entirely clear on what happens when I do:<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);
font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;
font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal;
font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing:
normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;
text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2;
word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;
text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style:
initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline
!important; float: none;">gpg --export-secret-keys --armor
<key_id><span><br>
</span></span></blockquote>
Is the secret key block that appears on STDOUT my plain secret key
or is it its encrypted version?<br>
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Best regards,<br>
Novak<br>
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