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What do you do to keep your GPG keys safe (i.e. so you don't accidentally lose them)?
by lucaspiller 10y ago
What do you do to keep your GPG keys safe (i.e. so you don't accidentally lose them)?
- Johnny_Brahms 10y agoin that example he is using symmetric encryption , so a password, no private key.
- stouset 10y agoSymmetric encryption is still based on secret keys, not passwords. Symmetric cryptosystems that appear to use passwords just transform them with a key derivation function into a suitable-length encryption key for the underlying cipher.