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Questions tagged [gpg-agent]

GPG-Agent is a daemon to manage secret (private) keys independently from any protocol. Questions related to encrypting and signing data with GnuPG aka GPG can be tagged with GPG-Agent

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How can I restart gpg-agent?

Some changes in the GnuPG configuration demands a gpg-agent restart / reboot (according to the doc), but... How can I do that? I tried gpg-agent restart, service gpg-agent restart, but did not succeed.
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How to delete a subkey on Linux in GnuPG?

I would like to delete an OpenPGP subkey of mine on Linux (L)Ubuntu 16.04 in GnuPG. It's a kind of "blank" useless key (see below key 33333333). I have not uploaded it to key servers, so I think it's ok to delete without revoking it. gpg2…
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gpg2: no secret key

I've been using enigmail for over a year without issue, and today it doesn't work. I found the following interesting fact: gpg --decrypt something.gpg # this works gpg2 --decrypt something.gpg # this fails So something is broken with gpg version 2…
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How to prevent gpg-agent from timing out during passphrase collection?

I'm calling out to gpg2 in a CLI script for symmetrical encryption of a local file. It appears to have gpg-agent prompt for a passphrase via some CLI, text based UI. As long as I'm around to enter the passphrase everything works fine. If I'm not,…
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I want to make pinentry use GUI locally and CLI on SSH

I need to be able to GPG-sign git commits in two different Linux environments. In a full GUI X-Window setup using the GUI-based password dialog box In an SSH, without X-forwarding, using command-line only password entry In both cases I need to be…
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GnuPG 2.2 refuses secret key import: "error sending to agent: operation cancelled"

I'm trying to import my PGP identity including secret keys to a new computer by connecting to a computer which has the secret key, and running ssh othercomputer cat myself.gpg | gpg2 --import When doing this, it looks like GPG is importing the…
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gpg2 running unreasonably slow, only when agent does not have password cached

Recently, my pass password manager has started taking upwards of 45 seconds to bring up the gpg-agent password prompt for my master password, which is super annoying when I'm trying to log into a website and have to sit there staring at the password…
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gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one

Trying to configure gpg in a way that I enter passphrase only once, and it will work for the whole session. However, this is what I'm getting: $ pgrep gpg-agent | wc 0 0 0 $ gpg-agent --daemon gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already…
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Gpg-agent under Windows as SSH Agent for git bash

gpg-agent has options "--enable-ssh-support" and "--enable-putty-support" that allows it to use it as a drop-in replacement for the well-known ssh-agent. I've been pulling my hair out trying to figure out how exactly make this work in windows and…
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Can't import key with gpg on arch linux

I'm a arch 4.9.8-1 system. I wanted to install linux-vfio kernel for gpu passthrough and to fix a problem with a bad IOMMU group. Trying to install the linux-vfio kernel I got the following error for missing keys. $ yaourt -S linux-vfio . . . ==>…
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How to configure PuTTY + gpg-agent to connect an SSH Linux server

I have a key-pair generated with Kleopatra (from Gpg4win 3.0 suite). I've converted the public key to an RSA ssh key and add it to the authorized_keys file in a Linux box. On the Windows machine I've configured the gpg-agent.conf file…
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gpg-agent ignoring cache config macOS sierra

I installed gpg via homebrew. I have a ~/gpg-agent.conf file as follows: allow-preset-passphrase default-cache-ttl 1209600 max-cache-ttl 1209600 max-cache-ttl-ssh 1209600 My .bashrc (actually: ~/.bash_it/custom/gpg-agent.bash) has export…
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Synchronize GnuPG 1.4 and GnuPG 2.1 keychains

While importing my keys to GnuPG on a new system, I considered the following: Question Is it possible to synchronize the gpg and gpg2 (gpg2.1) keychains? Is it wise to do so? Considering I found this answer to "Are GnuPG 1 and GnuPG 2 compatible…
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gpg: skipped "12345689": Unusable secret key / how to use signing subkey for gpg?

As you see, I have a key with id 12345689, and I'm trying to sign with it in git gpg -k /home/lz/.gnupg/pubring.kbx --------------------------- pub rsa4096 2020-03-02 [C] 12345689 uid [ unknown] Person Person sub …
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yubikey/gpg-agent always asking for my PIN when running git commit

recently, git has been asking me for my yubikey pin every 3 or 4 times after i've already typed in my pin. this didn't use to happen before. i'm thinking maybe the card isn't getting read correctly or is getting disconnected somehow. it's become…
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