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Unable to drop GnuPG key from profile #3952

Open sparxnet000 opened 4 years ago

sparxnet000 commented 4 years ago

I had previously uploaded my public key 0x7D618792A3E069DE to keybase.

This existing 2048 bit RSA key is expiring soon, so I decided to create a new ECC key. I uploaded the new key via the CLI using the keybase pgp select --multi command.

I would like to remove the soon to be expiring key and first tried to drop it from the Android app. That didn't work - no error message or changes. Next, I tried using the command

keybase pgp drop 7D618792A3E069DE from the CLI only to encounter the following message:

Error parsing command line arguments: bad key: KID wrong length; wanted 35 but got 8 bytes

Am I using the syntax incorrectly or is there some other issue ?

Regards,

Shahrzaad Parekh https://keybase.io/sparx

sparxnet000 commented 4 years ago

Ok - so the solution was to first list the keys I had available with keybase pgp list

Then I copied the keybase key ID and (NOT the PGP key ID or fingerprint) and used that value in

keybase pgp drop <keybase key-id>

The command help should clarify that in the absence of any help files/tutorials.

key-id = Keybase key ID and NOT GPG key ID

sparxnet000 commented 4 years ago

Ok - so the solution was to first list the keys I had available with keybase pgp list

Then I copied the keybase key ID and (NOT the PGP key ID or fingerprint) and used that value in

keybase pgp drop <keybase key-id>

The command help should clarify that in the absence of any help files/tutorials.

key-id = Keybase key ID and NOT GPG key ID

sparxnet000 commented 4 years ago

Of course, that still doesn't explain why I couldn't initially drop via the Android app GUI...