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Re:Strategies for offline PGP key storage by jvz on Thursday October 05, 2017 @01:25PM (#15410860)
Do you encrypt your keys before exporting? How do you ensure you'll remember the passphrase, if so?
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Re:Strategies for offline PGP key storage by xelxebar on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:31PM (#15411947)
At least with gpg2 exported private keys are encrypted by default. In fact,

    $ gpg2 --export-private-keys
won't even ask you for a password because of this.
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