Re: KISS gpg

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2019-10-30 18:58, Nicolas George wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is there somewhere in Debian a KISS version of GnuPG or something
> compatible?
>
> The current default version of GnuPG, since 2015, necessarily uses a
> client-server agent to access the private keys. While it is convenient
> and secure for everyday use, but for some tasks, the efforts it makes 
> to
> protect my files from myself prevent me from doing the tasks I want.
>
> As a short-term solution, does anyone know how to add a pass phrase to 
> a
> private key while exporting it, without changing it on the storage?
>
> Regards,

Excuse me for answering without really understanding the subject very 
well.
I think you can export the private key ascii armoured and then it is a 
text file
which presumably you can encrypt with some other program ?
I would have thought that if you add a passphrase ( if an option )to a 
private key after you generated
it then that and the original key would have different signatures ?

mick

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