-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2005-10-26 at 18:15 +0530, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
I already set up my own KGPG, but two things:
1. What do I do to backup and restore my KGPG key?
kgpg is a front-end to gpg. I suppose it has an option to export public and private keys, otherwise, you could do it manually. Warning: store the private key file in a _safe_ box. Or you can copy the contents of the .gnupg directory.
2. I use different passwords for different kinds of files (but I remember them). KGPG won't let me do that. It asks me to decrypt using my passphrase. So if I want to use different passphrases I should set up different keys, which is more the pain if I lose the intricate public-key private-key files.
Yes, because it uses a very different system. You need both the private key and the paraphrase. One must be stored very safely, the other must be committed to memory. The key ring file could be broken if some one has access to it.
With dsCrypt I can simply remember a single password and wherever I can run dsCrypt from I can decrypt the file without having any files on the local KGPG system. (What if I have to decrypt the KGPG-encrypted file on a Windows system?) So what do you suggest?
I would have another key pair in that windows machine, and encrypt on your computer using the public key of the second machine. Then the file can be read there, and only there. Or you can encrypt using multiple keys. The approach is very different. Read the documentation in "/usr/share/doc/packages/gpg/*", all is explained there. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDYBbatTMYHG2NR9URAhZ7AJ9IjQl8CG948pTrql5malnZUczFfgCgkUI0 HAyGyLhHYRjaeXMoBMUDyDo= =B+tb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----