That is what I had figured. Like I said I was just bored and the though popped in my head if that was something ever discussed.
On 5/25/2020 12:06 AM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Obviously I know you can install it an encrypted volume (depending on >> your OS) but was curious if the program or even the "pgp standard" took >> that into consideration or am I just too bored and that it's a stupid idea? > The OpenPGP standard dates back to the mid-1990s, when PGP 3 was first > being considered. (It was never released: the next version of PGP was > actually PGP 5.) Our understanding of the risks of metadata have > evolved significantly since then: it's possible that if OpenPGP were > being designed fresh today on a clean sheet of paper there would be some > mechanism in place to obscure or conceal metadata. > > Which is, of course, another way of saying that at present OpenPGP is > completely silent on this subject. If you want your public keyring to > be a confidential secret, the way to do that is to store it on an > encrypted file system. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
