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From: "Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <buanzo@buanzo.com.ar>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 10:08:08 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4555CB38.2090009@buanzo.com.ar> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611111235.35371.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

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Mick wrote:
> As the hardware is approaching the end of its useful life I wanted to move 
> away from my dependence on Psion, or use another method in parallel.  I have 
> of course gpg on my laptop, but I am concerned that I will be keeping both my 
> private key and the encrypted file on the same machine.

You also need the passphrase to unlock the private key, so, as far as you use big enough keys, and
good enough passphrases, your mind can't be hacked into (oh well, depends on torture, but...)

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-11-11 13:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-11 12:35 [gentoo-user] Encrypting a file containing confidential info Mick
2006-11-11 13:08 ` Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman [this message]
2006-11-11 19:45   ` Mick
2006-11-11 13:35 ` Fabrice Delliaux
2006-11-11 19:46   ` Mick
2006-11-12  0:14     ` Andrey
2006-11-13  5:58       ` Javier
2006-11-13  7:00         ` Mick

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