Any ideas now to recover from my double failure ( I created 2 backups, then removed one by accident and then when trying to access the thumb drive with second copy found it was dead ) That is I know of no way to revive a dead thumb drive, it will not mount nor is it recognizable by any OS I though at it. It's sealed in a metal case, you open it you destroy it ( thus I thought was safe place for my key backup )
1) don't sign the key I used, yet will try other tricks to revive the thumb drive. 2) If anyone knows of a private key trick so that I can create a key that can sign let me know On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Chris Knadle <[email protected]>wrote: > On Monday, March 10, 2014 09:07:04 Michael Muller wrote: > > Chris Knadle wrote: > > > On Sunday, March 09, 2014 23:59:35 Jack Chastain wrote: > > > > Yep - the issue was "conceptual" I think. It appears (to Joe and me) > > > > that > > > > the instructions for the sub-key was under the assumption that your > > > > laptop > > > > was your mobile system and your "base" computer was something less > > > > portable. The idea being that the server that you actually did key > work > > > > on > > > > was NOT portable... and would therefore have ALL the keys.... > > > > > > That's the most common way in which I think this is done, but it's not > the > > > only way. > > > > > > > Ah, assumptions. > > > > > > > > So - with Joe's assistance, I deleted my key and re-added it from my > > > > saved > > > > keys on the USB stick - and was THEN able to sigh keys. > > > > > > Right. The catch comes when you later want to remove the full key and > > > only import the relevant subkey bits (public and private). Hopefully > > > you've got instructions for that bit, as you probably did it in the > > > first place. > > > > Yeah, the tool is picky about the kinds of things that you can merge into > > your key-tree. I deleted and re-imported a couple of times while playing > > around with this. > > > > As an alternative to key wrangling, though, for the specific problem of > > signing with a secured master key you can mount the flash-drive and then > > specify the gpg --homedir option to indicate that the tool should use the > > mounted directory instaad of ~/.gnupg > > That's /much/ cleaner than the whole > delete/import/sign/delete/import_partial > procedure. Cool. > > -- Chris > > -- > Chris Knadle > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Apr 2 - Nginx: High-Performance HTTP Server, Reverse Proxy, and > IMAP/POP3 Proxy Server > May 7 - Google App Engine > Jun 4 - Samba: Can We All Just Get Along? > -- Joe /** ** Joseph T Apuzzo ** GPFS SME (Linux, Windows, AIX), Linux LPI-c1 ** http://www.linkedin.com/in/japuzzo/ ** GPG: https://sks-keyservers.net/ use 2190E068 **/
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