22.04 On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 4:39 AM Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> wrote:
> Josh Santos <j...@omnidapps.com> writes: > > > 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. > > Which LTS do you refer to? I believe the latest LTS, Ubuntu 24.04, uses > GnuPG 2.4. > > /Simon > > > 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 > >> >
