If you didn't send the keys to anyone, or upload to any key server
(which it sounds like you did not) then your best bet is to delete them
all and start over from scratch.
You really should install haveged, then wait a few hours, and generate a
new key. The process relies on quality entropy to work properly, and you
obviously haven't had it previously. Having good entropy on your system
is a requirement for a variety of other crypto purposes, including using
gpg down the road.
Also, unless you have a specific purpose for doing so, please don't use
an expiration date on your key. It adds extra complexity for no good
purpose.
hope this helps,
Doug
On 02/16/2017 09:36 AM, Anders Bateva wrote:
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.
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