[Enigmail] Where are my GnuPG keys stored?

[John Clizbe]

roundwound6 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to the group and OpenPGP in general. So far I've used Thunderbird
> 2.0/Enigmail/GnuPG as well as PGP Desktop 9.0. I've located my GnuPG folder
> but I'm unsure how to recognize my keyring files (and can't seem to access
> their actual path via TB/Enigmail or the gpg4win apps. With PGP Desktop it's
> easy to find them and change their path if necessary.
> 
> My goal is to ensure my private key file is secured inside a TrueCrypt 
> volume, but I'm not sure which files to secure at this point.

OK, the default location for the GnuPG home directory on Windows is
%APPDATA%\GnuPG. This normally expands to
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\GnuPG.

GnuPG stores its configuration file, gpg.conf, here, as well as the 3 keyring
files: pubring.gpg, secring.gpg, & trustdb.gpg.

If you're going to relocate your keyring files, leave gpg.conf where it is, and
just move the three *.gpg files. Then point gpg.conf to the location of the
keyring files. Eg, assuming the TrueCrypt volume is mounted as O:,

    no-default-keyring
    keyring         O:\GnuPG\pubring.gpg
    primary-keyring O:\GnuPG\pubring.gpg
    secret-keyring  O:\GnuPG\secring.gpg
    trustdb-name    O:\GnuPG\trustdb.gpg


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