On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Zece Anonimescu <z...@riseup.net> wrote: > Hey fellas! > > For the sake of portability I was reading about keeping the keyring on a > removable drive. I searched online but I get other things. Is it > possible to have the keys some other place? How do I tell GnuPG on some > other computer that it should look on the drive, but not copy or move > the contents?
Depending on your exact needs, you may find an OpenPGP smartcard to be a better choice -- once the private key or keys are loaded onto the card you can do all the normal operations (e.g. signing, decrypting, etc.), but the keys cannot be extracted from the card (barring bad guys with advanced means of disassembling microchips and reading out their contents). All the private key operations are conducted on-card and the keys never leave the card. If you need to, you can delete the keys from the card but you can't access or copy them from the card. See http://g10code.com/p-card.html for a description of the card. You can buy it and the appropriate reader from http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/index.php?cPath=1_26&sort=2a&language=en . I've had good luck with the SCR-335 reader on both Windows and several Linux distributions. -- Pete Stephenson _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users