Just checked, and luckily it seems Ubuntu LTS uses GPG 2.2 - when I saw this, was worried my key would have been made incorrectly, but should be good.
This is all new to me :) On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 10:19 PM Justus Winter <jus...@sequoia-pgp.org> wrote: > Hi, > > Carlos Henrique Lima Melara <charlesmel...@riseup.net> writes: > > > Last year I did a small workshop explaining the basics of GPG and > > asymetric cryptography to newcomers and helped them to create their > > own GPG key so they could join our keysigning party. > > If you want to create a new OpenPGP key with GnuPG, please make sure to > use GnuPG version 2.2.x (i.e. the version available in Debian), not > 2.4.x (i.e. the version available in Ubuntu, Fedora, and some other more > yolo distributions). > > If you use GnuPG 2.4.x or newer, you risk creating a non-compliant key, > i.e. not an OpenPGP key, but a GnuPG key. > > Best, > Justus >
