title: Is it safe to leave my password-protected PGP secret key available publicly?
body: <p>My PGP secret keys are always password protected, which means you need to decrypt it using a symmetric key to get access to my private key.</p>
  
  <p>I am interested in making my password protected PGP secret key publicly available but I am not entirely sure if I am missing something. Storing my secret key on my computer seems only to be making things harder (security through obfuscation) but not actually doing any good.</p>
  
  <p>considering that i can password protect my private key with a 256 bit AES
  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Symmetric_algorithm_key_lengths" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Symmetric_algorithm_key_lengths</a></p>
  
  <p>and that there is theoretical limit for the energy needed to crack a 2^n password using brute force
  <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_force_attack#Theoretical_limits" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brute_force_attack#Theoretical_limits</a></p>
  
  <p>What am I missing?</p>