RE: What is a reliable way to backup/restore my keys and test?

2016-09-15 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> Does exporting local signatures make it somehow more likely they might be > accidentally sent to a keyserver? No. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: What is a reliable way to backup/restore my keys and test?

2016-09-15 Thread MFPA
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On Thursday 15 September 2016 at 3:32:22 PM, in , Robert J. Hansen wrote:- > But I agree with Daniel that it's important to include those > options if you have local signatures on your keyring.

RE: What is a reliable way to backup/restore my keys and test?

2016-09-15 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I am unable to find any references in man to export-local in > - --export-options except for export-local-sigs. Maybe this is an > undocumented parameter to the --export-options option? What is it > supposed to do? --export-local is the same as --export-local-sigs. Likewise with

Re: What is a reliable way to backup/restore my keys and test?

2016-09-15 Thread Duane Whitty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16-09-14 05:24 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > Thanks for the very thorough walk-through, Robert. > > Perhaps GnuPG ought to produce some kind of interchangeable backup > automatically on its own that it can re-consume, so this kind of >

Re: Web Key Directory / Web Key Service wiki page

2016-09-15 Thread Bernhard Reiter
https://wiki.gnupg.org/WKD > === Mail Service Providers > * (gnupg.org) Testing accounts by request for developers implementing WKS > in Free Software MUAs. Posteo announced that they will fully support WKD/WKS in the next months. https://wiki.gnupg.org/EasyGpg2016/PubkeyDistributionConcept has

Re: What is a reliable way to backup/restore my keys and test?

2016-09-15 Thread Duane Whitty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 16-09-14 04:01 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote: >> I am relatively new to GNUPG so my apologies in advance if this >> question > is >> trivial. > > Welcome! And your question is not trivial. > > The following is the procedure I use on UNIX

Re: What is a reliable way to backup/restore my keys and test?

2016-09-15 Thread murphy
Also how to handle the tofu.db? A quick check doesn't find any --import-tofu or --export-tofu options. Does a simple backup and transfer of tofu.db suffice? --Murphy signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Gnupg-users mailing list

Re: Local-signing without (offline) private master key

2016-09-15 Thread André Colomb
Damien Goutte-Gattat wrote on 2016-09-12 14:16 (UTC+0200) > If you're already using GnuPG >= 2.1.10 (with support for the TOFU > model), I would argue this is your best option. This sounds reasonable. I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, GnuPG 2.1.11, so the TOFU stuff seems to work

Re: Signing and symmetrically encrypting files

2016-09-15 Thread Bernhard Reiter
Hi Arbiel, Am Mittwoch 14 September 2016 17:28:59 schrieb Arbiel (gmx): > Asymmetric encryption requires the recipients to use my public key to > get access the documents, whereas symmetric encryption only requires > them to key in the encryption key. for decryption, only the private key of the