Hello everybody, I'm trying to find the best solution for using GPG on a USB drive while travelling.
I read the FAQ about subkeys which suggests to only use subkeys on insecure computers. As far as I understand this, though, anybody who got hold of my private subkeys would still be able to read all my previous mails. The document was obviously written with workplace computers and such in mind, rather than heavily infected Windows PCs in internet cafes. Is there a possibility to have an additional encryption subkey, that is not used until explicitly asked for by the user? That way I could ask people to encrypt to that subkey only while I'm on the road. Since I assume that this is not possible, the best solution I can think of is to have another mail alias for my domain with another key for it. It would be easy to ask people to use that email address for a while and with a helpful email program (e.g. Thunderbird + Enigmail) the key selection/download would be easy, too. I think this strategy is going to work well enough, but I still want to ask around, if there are other opinions and experiences. I am thinking about getting a smart card by the way, but I'm not sure how I feel about having to carry a card reader around. Furthermore you cannot count on having two USB ports on any computer. Thank you for any comments _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
