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Yes, this is true.

I never felt comfortable having my private key on my phone, so I can't read encrypted email on the go.

I get one or two encrypted emails on a good year, and they are rarely important (or require encryption really).

> I get one or two encrypted emails on a good year, and they are rarely important (or require encryption really).

Well if only "important" things are encrypted, then the existence of an encrypted message is evidence to whomever you may be trying to hide from that something "important" is going on. Ideally everything would be encrypted, important or not; having all current encrypted things being unimportant is actually better than having only important things encrypted. :-)

My point was that those emails can wait until I'm on my desktop and I can decrypt them.

I should have used "urgency" instead.

I also have a fear of having my private key on my phone, but it's a nebulous kind of paranoid fear. I don't know if there's actually any good reason to have this paranoia or what the best practice is. I suppose having the same key in fewer places inherently increases security, but there has to be a line somewhere... Not accessing email on my phone would be a giant productivity killer.

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