Hello, May I ask how one would sign public keys when a "master key" is stored onto an USB stick ?
I followed instructions from [1]. Now I am in the process of announcing my key transition to all old signers *but*, as a last test, I just tested public signature with my "master key" and this is where troubles occur: LANG=C gpg --home /Volumes/FSF/.gnupg --recv-keys <A KEYID> gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `/Volumes/FSF/.gnupg' gpg: external program calls are disabled due to unsafe options file permissions gpg: keyserver communications error: General error gpg: keyserver receive failed: General error So what ? My USB stick is formated using extFat so permissions are something unknown. Do you have any way to workaround that ? Or better, USB stick storage best practice ? My environment is very hetereogenous but I may only sign from my OS X machine so there can be a better choice than extFat I presume. I did something odd as a very short temporary workaround: umask 077; mkdir /tmp/_gpg-to-sign gpg --home /tmp/_gnupg-to-sign --import /Volumes/FSF/2015-02-09/{public+private}.gpg then did my keysigning. Thank you very much. Footnotes: [1] https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair/ -- Sent with my mu4e _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users