Re: how to suppress new "insecure passphrase" warning

2020-09-21 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:27, Alan Bram said: > configuration, there was an already-running agent that I had to kill first > in order to get it to reread the config. Just for the reecords: gpgconf --reload gpg-agent would have been sufficent but "gpgconf --kill gpg-agent: works of course also.

Re: Announcing paperbackup.py to backup keys as QR codes on paper

2020-09-21 Thread Philihp Busby via Gnupg-users
A: Take a look at Paperkey, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Paperkey; I think it serves this need well. Not to diminish your work, good job! It's probably a good thing to have diversity in implementations, so we don't get stuck with the only thing being written in OCaml. B: I'm not well ve

Recovering private keys in a friend's GPG installation

2020-09-21 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht via Gnupg-users
Hello GnuPG mailing list, A friend of mine is running into issues with restoring their private keys after a botched system upgrade. While I don't have details of what exactly went wrong, they do have 3 keys in: ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg is empy, and their backups don't hav