On Jan 27, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Uwe Brauer <o...@mat.ucm.es> wrote: >>> "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.
Interesting. I wonder why it does that - perhaps it stores the key unencrypted internally? What happens if you provide your regular key passphrase to the app on import? David _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
