keeping your private key secure

[Timothy Wilson <wilson@visi.com>]

Good morning,

Because I read my email from a number of different locations and I try to
avoid sending my password in the clear, I've been opening an ssh session to
Visi and reading my mail with pine.

I'd rather not keep my GnuPG private key on Visi's machine, but I don't see
what alternative I've got if I want to read encrypted emails. (I haven't
even checked if Visi's version of pine supports GnuPG/PGP.)

In general, what's a moderately paranoid person to do when it comes to
keeping his private key private?

-Tim

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