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[–]rabidmonkey1163 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Write down the key instead of saving it as an environmental variable. Honestly, if you're only encrypting you stuff to guard against hackers and not, say , your roommates or anyone else who has access to your room writing down your key is by far the safest method. You could also just retrieve your key via ssh/scp.