Collaborate Disseminate
In my current pubring.kbx I found an old secret key with no expiry date set and its subkey, for that I have forgotten the passphrase. In the same file I have another better maintained key.
I tried to extract just that old secret key to a s… Continue reading Gpg key management – lost / forgotten keys
This may be a newbie question. A friend ("Bob") and I have tried to sign each others’ keys according to these instructions. I want to get Bob’s signature on my public key into my own keychain. We get to step 6, where Bob has sent… Continue reading GPG: importing a friend’s signature on my public key demotes "ultimate" to "full"
About GPG and for the kbxutil command in the following page:
14.1.1 Scrutinizing a keybox file
Has the following part
To see statistics on the keybox in question, run it using
‘kbxutil –stats ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx’
and you get an outpu… Continue reading GPG: How to clean/refresh the cache involved with the "pubring.kbx" file?
About GPG, mostly of the kbxutil command, when is executed the following command:
kbxutil ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
The report has the following structure:
BEGIN-RECORD: 0
Length: 32
Type: Header
Version: 1
Flags: 0002 (openpgp)
created-a… Continue reading GPG: Where is the official documentation of the "kbxutil" command about the report’s structure?
About GPG and keys
Each public key is stored in the ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx file (correct me if it is not correct)
Each public key normally has a pair of secret keys stored in the ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d directory. Where each secret key h… Continue reading GPG: What is the file that represents the "secret keyring" concept?
GPG allows file encryption for multiple recipients. I prefer to encrypt files:
Only to recipient subkeys shared with me by the intended recipients, like so:
$ gpg –encrypt –armor –recipient <some-recipient-encryption-subkey>! –r… Continue reading Restrict gpg from decrypting a file encrypted by a subkey which is now expired or revoked [duplicate]
when the following command is executed successfully:
gpg –full-gen-key
About the output as follows:
Change (N)ame, (C)omment, (E)mail or (O)kay/(Q)uit? O
We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other… Continue reading GPG: Where and what is the official documentation about the reporting structure for the gpg command?
Introduction
In SSH can be created a pair of keys as follows for example:
id_rsa
id_rsa.pub
Where the first one is the private and the second is the public.
Where both:
Are located in the ~/.ssh directory
Is possible apply the cat comma… Continue reading GPG: trying to understand about of public and secret keys
For Debian 12 and Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 when is executed the following command:
gpg –full-gen-key
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.40; Copyright (C) 2022 g10 Code GmbH
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY,… Continue reading GPG: Why the "gpg –expert –full-gen-key" command does not show all the "kind of keys"?
With VirtualBox is installed as guest Ubuntu Desktop 22.04.5 LTS x86_64
About gpg
gpg –version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.27
libgcrypt 1.9.4
…
Home: /home/manueljordan/.gnupg
To remove some keys, I executed the following commands:
gpg –delete-s… Continue reading GPG: Why "pubring.kbx" contains keys I removed?