Ingo, I greatly appreciate your assistance. >> Additional info >> Any input would be much appreciated. I am also a beginner with GPG and git, >> so thanks for your patience in advance. > > First let's have a look at your key. Please run > gpg --list-secret-keys > and paste the output for your signing key into your reply.
$ gpg --list-secret-keys /Users/erik/.gnupg/pubring.kbx ------------------------------ sec rsa4096 2021-02-08 [SC] [expires: 2021-04-09] 581F6A88B3F58A4E94A26040153F263741C51DC1 uid [ultimate] Erik Reinertsen <erik...@gmail.com> ssb rsa4096 2021-02-08 [E] [expires: 2021-04-09] > Moreover, let's time gpg signing without git. Run > echo Hello | time gpg --clearsign gpg --clearsign 0.01s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 6.696 total > Additionally, let's check which version of gpg you are using. Run > gpg --version $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.27 libgcrypt 1.9.2 Copyright (C) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GNU GPL-3.0-or-later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: /Users/erik/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 -- Erik _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users