Hello, Werner, Thanks for such a fast and helpful answer to my post.
But I'd like to apologise for the tone of my first post, which came out rather rude, something I hadn't intended. On Thu, Sep 14, 2023 at 15:53:48 +0200, Werner Koch wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:48, Alan Mackenzie said: > > I type > > $ gpg --gen-key > Use > gpg -v --gen-key > to see more warning. I did that. It came out saying something about gnome3. ;-( > > agent_genkey failed: Timeout > Look like a problem with your pinentry. Did it show up on another > screen? The "-v" should tell you which pinentry was invoked; share that > with us for help. Yes, it was my pinentry, which had been set up to use gnome3. I was calling gpg on a Linux tty. As soon as I amended the setup to use pinentry-curses (Gentoo has a utility to do this), --gen-key worked. > Next debug level would be > gpg -v --debug ipc --gen-key > but I don't think you need this. Indeed not. I now have a 3072-bit key pair, valid for two years. Thanks again! > Salam-Shalom, > Werner -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org https://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users