On 04/05/16 12:22, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Given the Live CD is a clean room, isolated, will the file format > compatibility issues will be relevant?
To the best of my knowledge, this would indeed not pose a problem at all. Note that exporting a private key with 2.1 prompts the user to enter the passphrase for the key. This is different from how earlier versions did it. The reason is a technical one: the local storage is in a different format than the export, and hence the passphrase is needed to decrypt the local storage, convert the format and then re-encrypt the export. As far as I can see, it doesn't matter whether the passphrase is already cached or not: I am always prompted for export. > People with interact with other systems by copying keys to be signed onto a > flash drive and copy the signed keys back into the other system later. The > other system they use may be running 1.4.x or 2.0.x I agree. HTH, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at <http://digitalbrains.com/2012/openpgp-key-peter> _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
