Darxus on Sun, 2 Jun 2002 01:30:12 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] GPG help?


On 06/02, Mike Leone wrote:
> True. But they are the most common removable media, and the cheapest. So
> it would be easy (and cheap)  to make multiple diskettes. That, of course,
> then introduces other security issues (such as losing one floppy somewhere).

Which is why you should generate a revocation certificate immediately after
generating keys, and keep it in more places than you keep your secret key.
I really think generating a revocation certificate should happen
automatically as part of "gpg --gen-keys".

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