Dear Chiraag, I've been thinking of a similar setup with my GPG keys on a smart card to encrypt/decrypt data on my android phone. Could be more specific about your setup?
thank you Dmitry On 10.08.2020 17:27, ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ via Gnupg-users wrote: > 10/08/20 09:07 ನಲ್ಲಿ, Stefan Claas <s...@300baud.de> ಬರೆದರು: >> >> Matthias Apitz wrote: >> >>> El día domingo, agosto 09, 2020 a las 10:06:13p. m. +0200, Stefan Claas >>> escribió: >>> >>>>> This article showed up today, when I did a Google search again: >>>>> >>>>> <https://tech.firstlook.media/how-to-defend-against-pegasus-nso-group-s-sophisticated-spyware> >>>>> >>>>> Trustworthy source. >>>> >>>> Mmmhhh, it is getting 'better and better' for smartphone users. >>>> >>>> https://www.androidauthority.com/government-tracking-apps-1145989/ >>>> >>> >>> One can use a Linux mobile phone running UBports.com (as I and all my >>> family do) >>> or the upcoming Puri.sm L5 (as I pre-ordered in October 2017). >> >> Yes, people gave me already (not from here of course) good advise for other >> OSs >> which one can use. The question is how long will those OSs been unaffected >> ... >> >>> Stop whining, stand up and fight and protect yourself. >> >> I am not whining ... I only wanted to let the people know. Also very >> interesting that only one person in this thread replied, besides you ... > > I was wary of storing my private GPG keys on my phone (if only because of > theft/loss/etc), so I set up my keys on a Yubikey and use that to decrypt > stuff on my phone. From what I understand, even if they were to obtain > secrets decrypted by the Yubikey or exfiltrate private files, they would not > be able to actually decrypt them given that the key resides on the Yubikey > (if the private key were on the phone itself, they'd "just" have to crack the > passphrase or whatever, which would presumably be much easier...). > > Just another way to mitigate the risk of stuff like this. > > Sincerely, > > Chiraag > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >
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