Re: PGP Keys on a Floppy

[thumper <thumper@kaiwan.com>]

On Thu, 7 Jul 1994, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> C.><< some suggestion to keep keys secure on floppy>>
> 
> DOS users can always encrypt their keyfile on a floppy encrypted with 
> SecureDrive.  <G>
> 

What I do is I zipped up my pubring.pgp and secring.pgp files into an 
encrypted zip file, then used PGP's conventional encryption to encrypt 
the zipfile.

Then to use pgp, I run a batch file that copies the encrypted zip files to a 
ramdrive, decrypt the conventional encryption by prompting for the password, 
then having pkunzip decompress the zipfile and prompting for it's password, 
and then presto.


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