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gpg: error reading key: No public key #32

Closed bereska closed 4 years ago

bereska commented 4 years ago

I followed your guide and copied .gnupg to an encrypted external volume but after running: gpg2 --homedir=/volumes/gnupg/gnupg-backup --list-key [fpr] i get this error gpg: error reading key: No public key

bereska commented 4 years ago

sorry, never mind, my bad i ran the wrong command, the correct one is: gpg2 --homedir=/volumes/gnupg/gnupg-backup/.gnupg --list-key [fpr] all is good now thank you for a great tutorial

bereska commented 4 years ago

however I do have one more question, pls bare with me) my existing pgp master key is [SC] so if i remove it from ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d, I won't be able to sign anything, right? so I take it for this to work, Ii have to move both of my keys [SC] and [E] to an OpenPGP smart card, right? by the way do you have any experience with Ledger Nano S/X? I currently use one for SSH and U2F. It would be great to move my keys to this device as well) 3 in 1 so to say) thank you

mricon commented 4 years ago

You can create any number of [S] subkeys and they will all be considered valid, so you should make a new [S] subkey and then move your [SC] master key to offline storage.

bereska commented 4 years ago

Thank you