Hello I used /"gpg2 --full-gen-key/", and a key pair was generated in less than 10 minutes. But, after generating, I used "/gpg2 -k/" and discovered there are 5 keys for my e-mail address on my computer. Appears some of the earlier tentatives of creating the key pair really created a key pair. Those are set to expire on 2021 or 2022. The one I created right now is set to expire on 2018.
Now, what should I do, in order to start using the key pair on my Thunderbird client, "/gpg2 --send-keys/"? And how to "cancel" the previous key pairs, "/--delete-keys/", "/--gen-revoke/"? Em 15/02/2017 18:16, LeRoy escreveu: > On 02/15/2017 11:28 AM, Anders Bateva wrote: > > Hello. I'm using GNU/Linux (distro: Ubuntu), not FreeBSD - sorry, I > > forgot to inform this. But, anyway, I did what you instructed: > > When I looked at the headers it looked like you were using FreeBSD. > My mistake, sorry. I am currently using Arch Linux. > > > > So, I have both gpg and gpg2. I can't create a symlink because gpg > > really exist, it's used for the VPN (when I uninstalled gpg > > yesterday, the VPN, I could not login anymore, and when I > > reinstalled the VPN today, it installed gpg too). > > > Here's gpg2: > >> $ gpg2 --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.11 libgcrypt 1.6.5 Copyright (C) > >> 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL > >> version 3 or later <http://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. > > I noticed that /usr/bin/gpg was not a symlink on your system. Is it a > hard link or is it gpg1? You can use the file command to find out. > > If it is not a hard link maybe you should find out what version it is. > gpg --version > > As I stated previously Enigmail seems to depend on /usr/bin/gpg being > version 2 of GnuPG. > > > > Should then I use /gpg2 --gen-key/? Maybe /gpg2 > > --full-generate-key/? > > The answer to this question is first finding out what the file gpg > really is. The second part depends how many questions you want to answe > r. > > This is from the man page: > > --full-generate-key > --full-gen-key > Generate a new key pair with dialogs for all options. > This is an extended version of --generate-key. > > There is also a feature which allows you to create keys > in batch mode. See the manual section ``Unattended key > generation'' on how to use this. > > This includes what questions what cipher you want to use along with a > lot of other questions. As a beginner I would use the just the > --gen-key unless you really want to learn all of the details. > > > _______________________________________________ > enigmail-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: > https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
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