Description


**Software Category:**

For detailed information, visit the GnuPG
website.

Available Versions

To find the available versions and learn how to load them, run:

module spider gnupg

The output of the command shows the available GnuPG
module versions.

For detailed information about a particular GnuPG
module, including how to load the module, run the module spider command with the module’s full version label. For example:

module spider
ModuleVersion Module Load Command

Generate a key

To generate a key, execute the following command:

gpg --full-generate-key

and follow the on-screen instructions.

If it ends abruptly with this message:

gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
Key generation failed: No pinentry

please follow these steps:

  1. Kill your current gpg-agent
gpgconf --kill gpg-agent
  1. Start the agent with pinentry
gpg-agent --daemon --pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry
  1. Run GnuPG
gpg --full-generate-key

It will ask you to “perform some other action” but just wait. After a few seconds you will be asked to create a passphrase in a popup window. Again, wait for a few seconds and retype your passphrase in another popup window. At the end you should see something like this:

gpg: /home/mst3k/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key **************** marked as ultimately trusted
gpg: directory '/home/mst3k/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d' created
gpg: revocation certificate stored as '/home/mst3k/.gnupg/openpgp-revocs.d/***.rev'
public and secret key created and signed.

pub   rsa4096 2020-03-06 [SC] [expires: 2020-03-07]
      ****************************************
uid                      MST3K <mst3k@virginia.edu>
sub   rsa4096 2020-03-06 [E] [expires: 2020-03-07]

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