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Generating a New GPG Key

Posted by in System Configuration on Oct 25th, 2017 | Comments Off on Generating a New GPG Key

Run gpg to generate a new key

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$ gpg --gen-key

Answer questions:

  1. RSA
  2. 4096
  3. User ID
  4. Email Address
  5. Comment

Enter a passphrase

Use gpg to confirm you now have the new key stored in the keyring:

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gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG

Results:

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/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg
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sec 2048R/4E6660E79D2BCFD5 2017-10-25
uid Jay C. Everson (None) <jeverson@techmentor.com>
ssb 2048R/C1B6E02B5116D297 2017-10-25
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