How do you manage GPG / PGP Keys on android and Linux, and why?

  • digger@latte.isnot.coffee
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    1 year ago

    OpenKeychain is great for keys on Android. It’s FOSS and available on FDroid. +1 for using a self hosted Nextcloud instance to keep things in sync.

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        1 year ago

        If they don’t need to be accessed often you could also put them in an encrypted folder or file using veracrypt

  • TheTrueLinuxDev@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    That’s an interesting dilemma when you bring up Android. I have always considered android device as a hardware compromised device and that it shouldn’t be used for highly confidential data to an extent that you might be using PGP/GPG for.

    But you could have all of your PGP/GPG centrally managed on a Linux system with android device having it’s own unique keypair that is signed by your root PGP/GPG keypair on your Linux system. As for software for managing GPG/PGP on Linux system, I just simply use KGPG which does the job plenty well. If you have to use PGP/GPG on Android Phone, then I recommend sticking with f-droid repository for PGP/GPG key management app, not Google Play Store.

    OpenKeychain Source Code

    OpenKeychain Package on F-droid

    Few use-cases for GPG/PGP on android is encrypting email or chat, but application integration is limited to select few software like K-9 Mail or Conversations.

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    Why the heck did server spam duplicates of my comments? :(