Collaborate Disseminate
I’ve experimented a lot with GPG the last couple days and one issue persists:
Someone signed my GPG key and published it to a keyserver X. I can see on the webpage that his signature is shown under my key, so that worked. But my local P… Continue reading GPG issues with sending and receiving keys
I recently created a new gpg key just for the sake of learning the basics of public key encryption. Now, I’d like to revoke that test key so that I can go on using a more “permanent” key that is associated with my personal email account. … Continue reading How long does it take for a gpg key revoke certificate to propagate to all public key servers?
I am currently using a Yubikey 4 with my PGP subkeys on it.
My mainkey is stored within Kleopatra.
As I am planning to move over to a new Yubikey 5 I have asked myself if it is possible to still be able to decrypt emails with my new pair … Continue reading Yubikey PGP migration
Is there any way to sign and send a message from email server automatically…without using any desktop client to sign the message.
For Example, A wants to send a message to B. A open its email account, composes message and click on ‘send… Continue reading How to automatically sign a message using PGP in an email?
Suppose that Alice gives her public key to Bob. The public key contains:
1 primary public key
and
2 subordinates public keys.
When Bob run: gpg –list-sigs
it shows that the primary key and both subordinates keys are self-signed by Ali… Continue reading Why gpg –sign-key only signs the Public Primary Keypair and not the Subordinates Public Keypairs?
I generated a backup of my master key and 3 sub keys following this into these archives:
gpg.conf
mastersub.key
openpgp-recovs.d
private-keys-v1.d (contains 4 .key files)
pubring.kbx
random_seed
reader_0.status
sub.key
tofu.db
trustdb.gpg… Continue reading How to import pgp backup back into smartcard?
I recently tried to understand how PGP works:
I encrypt plaintext with my private key and if I send that encrypted text to others with my public key they can encrypt that with my public key?
Is it possible to change passphrase on a subkey by:
gpg –edit-key sub_key_id passwd
Or will this change the passphrase on the master key as well?
(My idea stems from the fact that master key is used only for certification and thus onl… Continue reading changing passphrase on gpg subkey
I have read about The OpenPGP trust model but I don’t see any mention of the specific signature types. Are all signature types (sig0 – sig3) treated the same by tools such as gpg or the PGP Pathfinder?
Continue reading Web of trust and signature types? (sig1, sig2, etc)
How can I list all signatures made to a public OpenPGP key without importing it? A file with the public key is available.
I would like a similar output to gpg –list-signatures <key-id>, but instead of using the keyring, giving a fi… Continue reading How to list signatures of public key file without importing it to keyring?