Hi, Werner, all.
Please let me take this opportunity to ask you for trustable documentation,
or any other resource, which could help interested users like myself in
providing the gpg-agent with ssh client and daemon errands, on both fresh
and not-so-fresh OS installs. Please consider SELinux conte
Hi Alexander,
thank you for giving me background information. It really helped, this
sentenc was particularly helpful:
Alexander Kulbartsch writes:
> When you call "gpg --list-packets sec.asc"
> I assume you see something like "gnu-divert-to-card, ..." under your
> subkeys
When I export today,
Hi Damien!
Upfront some information you might probably already know.
When you "normally" create a new public/private key pair technically
*two* key pairs are created. Cross check with "gpg -K". One secret key
(sec) for signing and certify marked [SC] and another one, a secret sub
key (ssb) fo
Thank you both for your answers. I would like to understand why
restoring the backup doesn't restore my subkeys. On a fresh ~/.gnupg, I
did:
$ gpg --list-packets /media/mystick/key
gpg: keybox '/home/cassou/.gnupg/pubring.kbx' created
# off=0 ctb=94 tag=5 hlen=2 plen=134
:secret key packet
Hi Damien!
On 28.03.24 08:26, Damien Cassou via Gnupg-users wrote:
As you can see, there is a '>' character before each subkey but not
before the master key. Someone on the web has a similar setup but
doesn't have the '>' before his subkeys [1].
The ">" indicates that the key is on a smartcard
On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:26, Damien Cassou said:
> Is that a problem? Am I missing something important? It seems this
> causes me the troubles mentioned at [1].
Your subkeys are all stored on a smartcard. The primary key is online.
This is as intended. If you remove the the primary private key
(.
Hi,
I have a usb smart card containing my subkeys and my master key is
stored offline on a usb disk.
When I list my secret keys while the usb disk is plugged in, I get:
sec ed25519/0xF72C652AE7564ECC 2018-07-09 [C] [expires: 2027-12-21]
Key fingerprint = 8E64 FBE5 45A3 94F5 D35C
