Re: Debian & Pgp question...
On 13 Jan, Scott Ellis wrote:
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> Copy your secret and public key files to your linux machine
And when you do this copy, be really carefull with what you do; it
would be very easy to leave around copies of the secret key, thus
compromizing the key.
As a thumb's rule, re-format all the floppy disks that you have used to
move your secret key.
Don't trust delete or rm. it is very easy to undelete a file under M$,
but even with rm it is possible to get the content of the file using a
disk editor.
A safe remove is to copy a file over the file to be removed and then
remove it.
Be paranoic with your secret key!
Using pgp is an annoyance needed to get trust, but being annoyed
without the advantages is much worse.
Fabrizio
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