Create 2 couple of key.
one for remote, other for local.

Il giorno mar, 09/09/2008 alle 10.24 -0700, Grant ha scritto:

> >> It looks like I've imported a pub/sec keypair now.  Should I remove
> >> the public key for security?  Maybe I misunderstood from the beginning
> >> and having both keys on the same system isn't a security issue?
> >>
> >> - Grant
> >>
> >
> > It is still a security issue, but only as much as any other data on your
> > machine. Physical access to the box, or being remotely hacked will
> > always be a security risk.
> >
> > And yes, if someone does break in and copy your pub/sec keypair, they
> > will have full ability to masquerade as you in signed and encrypted emails.
> >
> > You have to weigh it up for yourself really. Many, many keep pub/sec
> > keypairs for their email on more than one machine. Of course it would be
> > a lot of work for someone to compromise your system for your gpg keys,
> > so your email would have to be of value to them.
> 
> Can I configure this so that I don't have the two keys on the same
> system?  I'd like encrypt with my remote system and decrypt with my
> local system.  Is that possible?  It seems like importing my private
> key also imports the public key.
> 
> - Grant
> 

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