KMyMoney has the ability to encrypt your data using GPG.
Besides using your own key for encryption, KMyMoney supports the
ability to encrypt your data with a recover key only available to the
core developers.
This key will have no effect if you always have access to
your own key, but if you lose your key or the passphrase for
it, the KMyMoney recover key comes in handy as now the core
developers can help you to recover your financial data. The only
thing you have to do upfront is to encrypt your data with the
recover key. If you don't do that, There is nothing we can do to help you.
For the second time I received an email with a request for help to decrypt a
KMyMoney data encrypted with GPG where the user has lost his/her
GPG-Key(ring). Unfortunately, in both cases KMyMoney's recover key feature had not been
used and I could not recover the data. If I had the ability to help in these cases (without the recover key) it would mean that I can successfully break any GPG encryption. Trust me, this is not the case.
The only thing that allows me to help a user in this situation is the
KMyMoney recover key. Using this feature, you encrypt your data with your
key and the recover key. In case you lose yours, you can send me the
file and I can use the secret part of the recover key pair to decrypt it.
I will ask you some questions about the contents of the file to make sure
that the person who sends me the file is the legal owner of the file. You
will also have to provide me with your new (public) key, which I will use
to encrypt the file to send it back to you. This way, your data is never
travelling the internet in readable form.
BTW: I encrypt my data using my own key (the same I use to sign all my
e-mails) and the recover key just for this purpose. I have stored a
printed copy of the recover key as well as a CD containing it in a safe at
my bank. This way, I can always reconstruct it and it is not getting lost.
Now, don't ever tell me you have not used the recover key feature ... you
have been warned.
Import the key into your GPG keyring before you can use it inside KMyMoney. Select encryption against this key in the Security settings dialog. Save your data. That's it.
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