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Gpg physically protects the private key file

I am just starting with GPG. I created a key pair and now I have several .gpg files:

drwx------  2 jason jason  4096 Feb 11 21:10 ./
drwx------ 90 jason jason 45056 Feb 11 20:49 ../
-rw-------  1 jason jason  9398 Feb 11 20:49 gpg.conf
-rw-rw-r--  1 jason jason  2316 Feb 11 21:10 mypk
-rw-------  1 jason jason  1633 Feb 11 20:52 pubring.gpg
-rw-------  1 jason jason  1633 Feb 11 20:52 pubring.gpg~
-rw-------  1 jason jason   600 Feb 11 20:52 random_seed
-rw-------  1 jason jason  1794 Feb 11 20:52 secring.gpg
-rw-------  1 jason jason  1280 Feb 11 20:52 trustdb.gpg

Do I understand correctly that secring.gpg is my private key? This file is protected by my passphrase, right? Can I just save this file on my machine? Should I move it somewhere more secure (like a flash drive)?

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Do I understand correctly that secring.gpg is my private key?

From man gpg:

~/.gnupg/secring.gpg
       The secret keyring.  You should backup this file.

This file is protected by my passphrase, right?

If you install one, yes. Actually, the file itself is not protected, but each key contained can be (you can have several secret keys in your secret chain).

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