Greg Motter wrote: > I'm working on setting up some encryption on a server and have been working > with a consultant giving us what we should be doing. One thing he wants us > to do is set up 2 keyrings and maintain 2 keyrings on our server. All we are > doing is encrypting flat text files that contain sensitive info when they > are at rest. Then having a separate process to decrypt these files when they > are needed. What he wants us to do is this: > > 1) Have a first keyring with our main key pair. The decrypt process will > access this keyring to do the decrypting. > > 2) Have a second keyring with just the public key from the first keyring. > We'd then access this second keyring for our encryption process.
Good lord, the schemes these "Consultants" come up with. >>From everything I've read. I see that you can change your keyring from the > gpg.conf file. Is it possible to change the keyring you want to use from > within the command line? I've tried using --keyring and --primary-keyring > from the command line a bit without success. > > Any suggestions? try --homedir <directory> Each set of keyring files go in their own (sub)directory -- John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org You can't spell fiasco without SCO. PGP/GPG KeyID: 0x608D2A10/0x18BB373A "what's the key to success?" / "two words: good decisions." "what's the key to good decisions?" / "one word: experience." "how do i get experience?" / "two words: bad decisions." "Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?"
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