rocko wrote: > I want to generate a new key pair, but i want to save it to > a usb pen drive so i can keep it safe. > I don't want any gpg keys stored on my laptop, in case it gets > lost or stolen, the culprits won't have access to my gpg keys. > So my questions is how do i tell gpg to look for my keys on a > usb pen drive so i can encrypt and decrypt files on my laptop? > > I looked in the 'How To's' and 'Guides' but didn't see anything > on generating keys on a pen drive. > > Can i envoke a 'path' to my keys when i run gpg? > "gpg --encrypt path_to_keys_on_usb_drive filename"
In gpg.conf in your GnuPG home directory, specify
no-default-keyring
keyring /path/to/usb/keys/pubring.gpg
primary-keyring /path/to/usb/keys/pubring.gpg
secret-keyring /path/to/usb/keys/secring.gpg
trustdb-name /path/to/usb/keys/trustdb.gpg
Move the three .gpg file to /path/to/usb/keys/
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