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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to use GPG for myself on Thumb drive? Post 302249725 by siegfried on Wednesday 22nd of October 2008 01:44:14 AM
Old 10-22-2008
How to use GPG for myself on Thumb drive?
I have some sensitive data I would like to keep on a thumb drive.

Now I know this is a UNIX/Linux forum and I regret to say that I'm using windows but I'm hoping that is irrelevant.

So I install gpg on both windows machines: one at home and the other at work.

I encrypt some stuff on the home machine, export the keys and go to work and import the keys. No errors. But then I try to decrypt the data file and no luck: it did not even prompt me for my passphrase!
What do I have to do to be able to read my encrypted file at work?

Also: should I be concerned about piping the decrypted output from gpg to a hard drive where someone at the recycling center could eventually scavenge the disk. I was going to pipe it to the thumb drive but then I realized if I ever lost my thumb drive, someone could scavenge the decrypted deleted file?

So what can I do? Have a special thumb drive just for holding the deleted and decrypted data that I eventually destroy? Or maybe one cannot scavenge flash memory?

Thanks,
Siegfried
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

gpg-key2ps

GPG-KEY2PS(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     GPG-KEY2PS(1)

NAME

       gpg-key2ps - generates a PS file from a GnuPG keyring

SYNOPSIS

       gpg-key2ps [-r revoked-style] [-p papersize] [-1] [-s] keyid-or-name [ ... ]

DESCRIPTION

       gpg-key2ps generates a PostScript file with your OpenPGP key fingerprint (repeated as often as it fits) useful for keysigning parties. The
       only argument is the same as you would pass to GPG's list-keys command, either a key-id or a (partial) name.  The PS data is written to
       stdout.

OPTIONS

       -p --paper-size paper-size
	   Select the output paper size. Default is to look into /etc/papersize or A4 if libpaper isn't installed.

       -s --show-subkeys
	   Enable subkey information to be printed on the slips. Subkey information is normally not relevant to the key signing process.

       -r --revoked-style revoked-style
	   Select how to mark revoked UIDs and subkeys. Five styles are available:
	    hide don't show at all (default),
	    show show normally,
	    grey display in 50% grey,
	    note add "[revoked]", and
	    strike strike through.

       -1  Print only one column of paper slips instead of the default two. Useful for keys with long UIDs that otherwise won't fit.

       keyid
	   Keyids to print. Multiple can be separated by spaces.

       -h --help
	   Print usage and exit.

       -v --version
	   Print version and exit.

SEE ALSO

       gpg(1)
	   GNU Privacy Guard.

       http://pgp-tools.alioth.debian.org/
	   The homepage of gpg-key2ps and the other tools bundled in signing-party.

       http://www.debian.org/events/materials/business-cards/
	   gpg-key2ps prints plain fingerprint slips. If you are looking for something more stylish, look at these latex templates for business
	   cards that also include fingerprints.

AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT

       (c) 2001-2005 Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org>
       (c) 2005-2008 Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@kinkhorst.com>
       (c) 2005-2008 Christoph Berg <cb@df7cb.de>

perl v5.12.4							    2011-11-03							     GPG-KEY2PS(1)
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