Re: Recovering private keys in a friend's GPG installation

2020-09-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users 
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:58, Andrew Engelbrecht said:

> private keys, and were merely left behind. If there is a way to check
> the fingerprint of the keys they belong to, and to import them, that
> would be super helpful. Is there a way to do that?

Unfortunately this is not instantly possible because the creation time
is part of the fingerprint computation.  We don't have a tool yet to do
this.  Needs to be written.  GnuPG 2.3 will record the creation time to
make things easier in the future.  For now you need to guess the time
(the "protected-at" value in the key file might give a hint) and weel,
write a little tool to compute the fingerprint.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner


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Re: how to suppress new "insecure passphrase" warning

2020-09-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users 
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:27, Alan Bram said:

> configuration, there was an already-running agent that I had to kill first
> in order to get it to reread the config.

Just for the reecords:

  gpgconf --reload gpg-agent

would have been sufficent but "gpgconf --kill gpg-agent: works of course
also.


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   Werner

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