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WARNING Do not store your keypair and/or revocation certificate on a public
machine, semipublic machine, or shared machine! Yes, I’ve said this
before, but it bears repeating until it sinks in.
Storing Your Revocation Certificate
Just as anyone who gets your private key and passphrase can
pass himself off as you, anyone who gets your revocation certifi-
cate can make your private key unusable by the world at large.
This would be annoying for a novice, but if you use OpenPGP
heavily it would be catastrophic. Store your revocation certifi-
cate just as securely as you store your private key.
Photo IDs and OpenPGP Keys
One of the more recent ...