>> "David" == David Shaw <ds...@jabberwocky.com> writes:
> On Jan 27, 2014, at 3:02 PM, Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> wrote: >> Hello >> >> I just tried out iPGmail a app for the iPhone which supports >> pgp. However I want to import my private key and here the trouble >> starts. For some reason iPGmail only supports private keys in armor >> format which are password protected. >> >> But >> gpg --export-secret-keys --passphrase hallo --armor > oub2.asc >> >> Did not really add a passphrase, since I could import oub2.asc as a >> different user, without being asked the password. > I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to do. > --export-secret-keys doesn't add or remove a passphrase. If the key > has a passphrase, the exported one still does. If the key has no > passphrase, neither does the exported one. Right there is a misunderstanding. What you say is of course correct so during exportation and importation no password is asked, however when I want to *use* the key then I must provide the password. However it seems that the application expects for some reason another a password during the import process.
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