Thank you, Daniel.

Anil.

On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On 01/04/2013 04:09 PM, Anilkumar Padmaraju wrote:
> > This is first time I am upgrading gnupg.  Are there any steps or document
> > to download source, compile, and upgrade?  I did some search in google,
> but
> > could not find detailed one.
> >
> > After upgrading do I have to do gpg --gen-key or it is only needed when
> we
> > install for the first time?
>
> GnuPG is software for working with OpenPGP material (keys, signatures,
> and encrypted messages).  Newer versions of GnuPG will continue to work
> with pre-existing OpenPGP material.
>
> This means that you should not need to generate another OpenPGP key just
> because your version of GnuPG was upgraded.  Your existing OpenPGP key
> should continue to work.
>
> hth,
>
>         --dkg
>
>


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