[TriLUG] GPG in synch between desktop and laptop?

[Mike M]

On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 08:47:56PM -0500, Bill Vinson wrote:
> Does anyone use GPG on multiple systems (such as Desktop and Laptop)?  
> How do you manage to keep all the signatures up to date on both 
> systems?  Just curious how others handle this situation...

manually:
export
cp to /mnt/<nfsmount>
import

I traffic minimally in keys currently.  I am familiar with the problem
from losing the laptop recently.  

Is there a safe handling procedure for archiving your secret key? The
man gpg shows --export-secret-key but warns this is a security risk, 
but why?

-- 
Mike

When the correction first comes, we tend to underreact. While we do not 
like the surprise, we tend to think of it as maybe a one-time thing. 
Things, we believe, will soon get back to normal. We do not scale back 
our expectations sufficiently. It apparently takes years for this to 
work itself out. - John Mauldin