[ale] How do you store your passwords?

[Brian Pitts]

Nick Ali wrote:
> On Nov 9, 2007 4:46 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com> wrote:
>> I can take that FILENAME.gpg, put it on my USB stick, and carry it around
>> safely.. I  think..
> 
> You also need to carry the private key, which is stored in ~/.gnupg if
> you just created a public/private key set on your local machine. Just
> copy the .gnupg/ to your stick and use the --homedir option to point
> to it when decrypting.
> 
> nick

This is why I think an encrypted partition is a better solution, btw. Of 
course, you have to remember the password to decrypt the master key that 
decrypts the partition.

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-Brian