Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> Matthew West wrote: >>> Hi, I have all of my gnupg information set up on this current machine. >>> How would I transfer my information to another computer. Is it fine to >>> use the same information on both computers? > >> Copy ~/.gnupg/* to your other computer; specifically, trustdb.gpg, >> secring.gpg, pubring.gpg, gpg.conf. > > Please don't follow this advice. > > Copying your entire .gnupg/ directory will also copy random_seed. You > don't want random_seed to be shared between two computers. That could > potentially result in a session key not being a one-time thing. If two > computers share a random seed file, the chances of their random > sequences being not-at-all-random increases. > > By all means, copy *.gpg and gpg.conf. Leave random_seed alone. You'll > be happier that way. >
*thunk*
Yeah, I should have thought of that... that's what comes of posting just
before lunch.
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