David Shaw dshaw at jabberwocky.com wrote on Sun Feb 8 22:41:10 CET 2009 :
>In OpenPGP, a secret key is just a public key with some >extra stuff (the secret numbers) tacked on to the end. That's how >paperkey makes the keys so small - it can safely leave off all the >public key information. well, speaking for the very small contingent of the occasionally maybe-too-secretive ;-) would ask to consider the following scenario, and if there is a possible paper key solution: for those extremely private secrets where one prefers to hide even the public key that a file is encrypted to, and uses the 'throw-keyid' option, and also uses a public key generated for only this purpose, not put up on any keyserver, and not kept on any of the other keyrings, (and therefore much easier to lose ... ;-) ) is there a way to get paperkey to reconstruct both the public and secret keys, given the secret key ? tia, vedaal any ads or links below this message are added by hushmail without my endorsement or awareness of the nature of the link -- Need cash? Click to get an emergency loan, bad credit ok http://tagline.hushmail.com/fc/PnY6qxsmmu5OZiJnelXLqMehzTGAlwhiNa1GxR4EWRNHLiPMeouYH/ _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users