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I was reading about Protonmail’s system and I couldn’t find an anwser to something. In PGP communication is encrypted using assymetric cryptography: public and private keys. If you want to send something securely to a recipie… Continue reading In PGP how can I be sure about the public key?
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Executing gpg -K –with-keygrip returns one key entry. However the private-keys-v1.d directory has two entries. I assume that one of them belongs to a secret key that has been deleted/removed.
Is there any way of restoring … Continue reading Can a deleted PGP secret key be recovered from private-keys-v1.d directory?
I have a communication partner that is using some script that does not work well with subkeys. Now, my gpg key is a normal key [SC] with three subkeys for E,S and A specifically.
For my communication partner, I’d like to ext… Continue reading create gpg public key from subkey
For migration I exported private/public key pair from OSX to whonix. I exported the file to my filesystem and opened the asc file with textedit. The private key to my surprise was in plaintext! I copied the key over to my who… Continue reading How is private key encrypted after export?
gpg version: 2.2.16 (as part of Gpg4win 3.1.9).
Is this supposed to happen: Every export of my private key partially differs from every other export as follows: 2 middle chunks of the main block, and the last 4 characters be… Continue reading gpg: Every private key export (of the same key-pair) is different
Suppose Bob receives a clear-signed message from Alice. Bob wants to add his own signature to this signed message, because he has verified the message contents and wants his friends (network of trust) know the message is auth… Continue reading Can a new signature be added to an already signed message?
Somebody out there has taken a big dislike to Robert J. Hansen (‘rjh’) and Daniel Kahn Gillmor (‘dkg’), two well-regarded experts in the specialised world of OpenPGP email encryption. Continue reading OpenPGP experts targeted by long-feared ‘poisoning’ attack
I have a PGP master public / private key pair. I have created 3 subkeys for it. I want to add 3 more subkeys to this master key. Would doing so change my public and private keys?
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I forgot the passphrase of my PGP, but I have the private keys. Is there any “easy” method which doesn’t take years to decrypt the PGP message?
Continue reading Decrypt PGP message with private keys but forgotten passphrase [migrated]