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Just here to say thank goodness for the EFF. I support them, and if you live a cushy life like I do and have the money, you should too.


Good. The more they abuse their user base the more people will look for alternatives. Hello Lemmy! :)


Yup that’s the solution I went with in the end analysis. Just use the exported text file copies of my keys and I’m good to go :)


Interesting food for thought here, but you’re talking about making the keys more secure.

These keys are ONLY used to store E-mail credentials, so “Good enough” is plenty :) I’ll work on successfully retaining and managing my single key first, and then we can work on flying around the room :)

But thanks!


Hey I just want to thank you for this. It did indeed do exactly what I wanted! I think in the past when I’d tried to export my secret key I musn’t have used the right parameters because I could never import it, but when I follow this guide I can!

So now I can just store plaintext private and public keys on my private NAS and import them on any machine where they’re needed and I’m good to go!


Struggling with GnuPG private keys
So, years ago I tried PGP/GPG and put my key up on the public keyservers. And then promptly lost the private key data. Lather, rinse, repeat, and now there are like 5 old GPG/PGP identities for me up there that are gone forever and can't be revoked. So, it's 2024, and I think "I have a NAS I do regular backups and test restores on. Surely I can keep my private key data safe and secure now". So I get GPG going, create my keys, and then, not knowing any better? copy my entire $HOME/.gnupg directory to my NAS. The goal here is for me to be able to use the same private key across all the machines I use. There are several. But when I copy down that directory, GPG refuses to "see" it. gpg --list-secret-keys prints - Nothing. 1) Is there a better way to keep my key in sync across all my machines? I'd rather not use keybase if possible, they give me the willies after tainting themselves with cryptocurrency and being bought. 2) Assuming there isn't, what am I doing wrong with my ~/.gnupg directory? Thanks in advance!
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Apple does not care and will never care about open source other than the bits it has to care about because they’re a part of Darwin, their core.

They’re a company offering a particular “experience” and open source products do not fit into that model well at all. I use apple phones because I’m partially blind and for a very long time the accessibility story on Android was a screaming nightmare (I’m told it’s got better) but I have no illusions that they’re anything other than a profit seeking MegaCorp with all that implies.