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Martin Hope
Mei Naim
Asked: 2018-11-30 04:04:25 +0800 CST
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sorry if this was already answered, but I couldn't find the right answer on my own.

I am using Enigmail in Thunderbird and created a pgp key (priv and pub) for myself in Enigmail. Now I want to sign documents created in Libre Office. My pgp key pair appears in Seahorse, but doesn't appear in Seahorse opened by Libre Office, because they are not marked as "personal" (and Libreoffice only signs documents with keys marked as personal?).

Do I have to export it from Enigmail and reimport it to Seahorse? Then I would have them two times, wouldn't I?

How can I use my pgp key created in Enigmail for signing documents in Libre Office?

Thank you for your help! :)

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Martin Hope
Forivin
Asked: 2018-08-28 02:01:27 +0800 CST
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I am trying to import a GPG key on a Gitlab CI system with an ubuntu:bionic Docker image. To do this securely, I have to store the key in a so called secret variable (which then simply becomes an environment variable at runtime).

So I tried to export the key in a non-binary format like this:

gpg2 --armor --export-secret-keys "my name <my email>" > my-gpg-key.asc

my-gpg-key.asc looked like this then:

-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----

long multi line ascii string
-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----

Then I copied the file contents and defined a secret variable from it. The variable is called LAUNCHPAD_GPG_PRIVATE_KEY

Here is what I tried: 

apt-get -qq update --yes
apt-get -qq install --yes gnupg2 > /dev/null
export GPG_TTY=$(tty) # compensate for ioctl error
gpg2 --list-keys
gpg2 -v --import <(echo "$LAUNCHPAD_GPG_PRIVATE_KEY")
gpg2 --list-keys

This causes:

gpg: key 17B1EA9E090F697D/17B1EA9E090F697D: error sending to agent: No such file or directory
gpg: error building skey array: No such file or directory

I also tried to export and import the key with gpg instead of gpg2: Same result...

I also tried running

gpg-agent --daemon

and

gpg-agent --daemon --allow-loopback-pinentry

before the import... but still: Same error.

Any ideas how this can be done properly?

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Martin Hope
Alice Ryhl
Asked: 2014-09-13 07:39:05 +0800 CST
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Here's the situation, I have a PGP key I generated a long time ago and I have lost my private key. However I have a revocation certificate on my USB drive and I would like to revoke the key.

After looking on the internet I found this solution

$ gpg --import /path/to/usb/revocert-01324567.asc
gpg: key 01324567: no public key - can't apply revocation certificate
gpg: Total number processed: 1

I'm unsure how to download my public key from the keyserver, and how to upload it. Help would be appreciated.

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Martin Hope
Oli
Asked: 2011-02-03 06:49:40 +0800 CST
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Many lives ago, I created a GPG key to sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct on Launchpad. I haven't really used it since. Some time later, I backed up my home and started fresh.

That was all back in 2009. I still have the backup but now I'm starting to play around with Quickly and upload things to Launchpad, I could really do with having my PGP key back.

I don't really know how the key is organised or where it's stored, but I'd like to recover my old key rather than generate a new one. Any idea where to start?

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