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The GnuPG Manual states that:
This [sshcontrol] file is deprecated in favor of the "Use-for-ssh"
attribute in the key files.
What is now the correct way to configure gpg / gpg-agent to use your key for SSH?
Specifically:
What types of certificates are there?
I was checking online and I found several different types, some at the level of the format of the certificate (x509, PEM, DER), and one at the application level (TLS/SSL, SSH, PGP).
Can someone please … Continue reading Types of certificate? [duplicate]
I need to add my GPG key to some lines in
~/.gnupg/gpg.conf
such as
default-key XXX
default-recipient XXX
Does it accept shell environment variables? Can I use
default-key $GPGKEY
default-recipient $GPGKEY
where $GPGKEY is defined in my … Continue reading Does ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf accept shell environment variables?
I have a process that needs secret keys to be passed as environment variables. That is for historical reasons.
I have a AWS machine where this process runs but I do not want to store these keys in files or scripts on the cloud.
What is the… Continue reading Launch a process with secrets as environment variables
AFAIK, the few ways private information from gpg can get leaked to other users on a shared Linux machine is:
someone with root access can access gpg’s files
someone with root access can access gpg’s process memory
gpg process’s pages co… Continue reading gpg security on a shared Linux machine
Specifying multiple keyservers doesn’t seem to work correctly, and gpg always uses just the first key server. I have the following two lines in my dirmngr.conf:
keyserver hkps://keys.openpgp.org
keyserver https://keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg … Continue reading GnuPG (gpg) specify multiple keyservers
I had a key that I accidentally deleted from the keyring a while ago and I’d like to dissociate my name from it. I still have the key as well as the revocation certificate. I made another keypair since then with an entirely different passp… Continue reading GPG deleted key/disassociation
I have an encrypted data containig some of my data that I am unable to decrypt. It is archived with tar, compressed with gzip and encrypted with gnupg. Today I tried to decrypt it with gpg and it failed, even though I have the the password… Continue reading GPG can’t decrypt my data because of an invalid packet
I know this might sound counter-intuitive, but is it possible to configure gpg to store public keys in encrypted state on disks? Such that when encrypting a message to someone, user would be asked to first enter a passphrase to decrypt rec… Continue reading Does gpg support storing public keys in encrypted state?
I don’t remember my passphrase for my PGP key that was created several years ago.
How can I decrypt my file.key to recover it?
Or what should I do to recover it from my file.key?
Continue reading How to recover my password from my file.key [duplicate]