Re: Generating revocation certificate

On 2019-04-06 at 21:30 +0200, Peter Lebbing wrote: > This was all quite an ordeal for Debian to get right, there are a lot of > subtleties to deal with. I really think your best bet is to get that "2" > suffix in your muscle memory for when you use the command line. Why should I need to remember t

Re: How do I delete secret subkeys correctly?

On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, at 5:06 PM, Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira wrote: > I had some revoked subkeys that I was not going to use anymore. > I thought it would be a good idea to delete their secret keys, > so I used the gpg --delete-secret-keys command to do it. > I ended up accidentally deleting

Re: How do I delete secret subkeys correctly?

On 10/04/2019 17:24, Peter Lebbing wrote: > gpg> delkey Sorry, my fatigued head was being silly. That's for deleting the public part, not the secret part. I don't think I know the way to delete the secret part when you just want to delete some subkey. Sorry, Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Gua

Re: How do I delete secret subkeys correctly?

On 10/04/2019 15:25, Matheus Afonso Martins Moreira wrote: > If not, what is the correct way to do this? $ gpg --edit-key [KEYID] gpg> key N gpg> delkey Where N is the number of the subkey you want to delete; they are numbered 1 for the first one listed and so on. It will indicate with a "*" next

How do I delete secret subkeys correctly?

I had some revoked subkeys that I was not going to use anymore. I thought it would be a good idea to delete their secret keys, so I used the gpg --delete-secret-keys command to do it. I ended up accidentally deleting all my keys instead, including my primary key. I'm trying to learn from my mistak

Please ignore: Storing key on multiple smartcards

Sorry for the noise. This message was intended to go to gnupg-devel, but I screwed up. Please ignore it. Peter. -- I use the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in combination with Enigmail. You can send me encrypted mail if you want some privacy. My key is available at

Storing key on multiple smartcards

I agree that GnuPG would benefit from preferring keys that are available, both in the sense of different subkeys and different smartcards with copies of the same subkey, in the sense you describe. But let me pick out one detail you mentioned that is a different issue. On 10/04/2019 09:38, Frederic