-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:02:00AM -0700, Greg Motter wrote: > > Hello, > > GPG newbie here and have a question. > > 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 seperate 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. > > >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. hi just a question... maybe i'm overlooking something what is the point of having 2 keyrings if both are readable by the same user? and if you have different users running the two processes, then just edit the corresponging ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf files to point to the corresponding keyrings
(of course i could be overlooking somethin...) yours albert -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBRtQbySIMiEpzxsFKAQISTAP/dXsrLZmGrNORLyC0KnUowTxcg0uDaibu ENno8EoNSIwv8aA0YS63GSVlHOkGWilD1I3jj6gkJGrbAT+WX7Vrf/O+dyWIhjGX vC9VAL18YU6FIAYQ5RxZQ8asQEEV4UkaU9Xjph6b03nOJF/swT0SygkhtD2mxxMt xSsO0TJbHSI= =Jvuw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
