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I am revisiting the idea of signing my ML/NG posts by default. A
couple of issues came up in a dry run of the process, though. These
all pertain to my trying to use GPG through TB!
1. A dialog box comes up, which has a checkmark option to use the
Password Database. How is this constructed? In particular, how
secure is it? It seems to me like a very bad idea to put one's
passphrase into a hard drive database.
2. How is the passphrase cached when it is entered into the dialog
box?
3. Only one key came up in the dialog box, without a drop-down menu.
It was the key currently set as default in GPG. Is there any way to
either specify a particular key for TB! or to see a menu of choices?
The concern is that I might change my option set to another key, which
would then set up the wrong key for TB!; yes, I know that I would be
alerted to that, but then I'd have to load GPGshell, etc. etc.
4. Hmmm.... of even more concern, now that I tried to send the
preceding message, is that when the signing dialog box came up and I
entered my passphrase on the lower line for the key which was shown on
the upper line, I received the following:
gpg: no default secret key: bad passphrase
gpg: [stdin]: clearsign failed: bad passphrase
Why did that occur? My passphrase was not incorrect. (This message
was signed with the same passphrase and the same key, but with
GPGshell in the systray.)
Thanks.
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JN
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