On Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:10, du...@nofroth.com said:
> Once I have completed my OS upgrade how do I restore my keys and the
> trust levels assigned to them?
If you restore the backup of ~/.gnupg (with all sub directories) with
the right permissions (tar xpf) you should be done. GnuPGnstores all
it
On Thu 2016-09-15 15:32:32 -0400, MFPA wrote:
> And if they are accidentally sent to a keyserver, does the keyserver
> strip them because they are marked as non-exportable?
It should but the current sks keyservers do not do this right, and an
attempt to fix this has been stalled for years:
http
> Does exporting local signatures make it somehow more likely they might be
> accidentally sent to a keyserver?
No.
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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.
Does exporting local signatures make it somehow more
> 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
--import-loca
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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
> inv
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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 systems
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
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On 09/14/2016 06:31 PM, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:
> Hello Duane,
>
>> How can I make sure my private key and trust assignments were copied
>> properly?
> for me in the past taking a backup of .gnupg was sufficient. However you
> can also export your secret key using:
>
> gpg --export-secret-keys -a
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
involved process isn't necessary.
A couple notes below:
On Wed 2016-09-14 15:01:47 -0400, 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 systems:
First, export all public certificates into a public keyring:
$ gpg --armor --export > pub.asc
Secon
Hello Duane,
> How can I make sure my private key and trust assignments were copied
> properly?
for me in the past taking a backup of .gnupg was sufficient. However you
can also export your secret key using:
gpg --export-secret-keys -a > secret.asc
And the manual trust assignments by doing:
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