Simon Repp on Nostr: Thank you so much for this excellent guide, helped me enormously to rotate my keys, ...
Thank you so much for this excellent guide, helped me enormously to rotate my keys, and I learned a lot in the process too!
I'm sharing a few notes I made - feel free to incorporate or ignore them, whichever way you feel like! :)
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- In the command "$ gpg --export --armor BF3B5AFCD4480E60> BF3B5AFCD4480E60.pub" there seems to be a missing space (next to '>'), it was probably intended to be "gpg --export --armor BF3B5AFCD4480E60 > BF3B5AFCD4480E60.pub"
- The command "rm cat ~/.gnupg/openp..." probably accidentally contains the "cat" and was intended to be "rm ~/.gnupg/openp..."
- In the command "gpg -a --gen-revoke BF3B5AFCD4480E60 > BF3B5AFCD4480E60.rev" we create a revokation certificate for the old key. Towards the end of the process I found myself wondering if this file should be kept (and why), a short note on that would be great.
- Likewise to the previous point, I found myself wondering why we are keeping the old key files at all, this would also be fantastic to have just a sentence on.
I'm sharing a few notes I made - feel free to incorporate or ignore them, whichever way you feel like! :)
(1/2)
- In the command "$ gpg --export --armor BF3B5AFCD4480E60> BF3B5AFCD4480E60.pub" there seems to be a missing space (next to '>'), it was probably intended to be "gpg --export --armor BF3B5AFCD4480E60 > BF3B5AFCD4480E60.pub"
- The command "rm cat ~/.gnupg/openp..." probably accidentally contains the "cat" and was intended to be "rm ~/.gnupg/openp..."
- In the command "gpg -a --gen-revoke BF3B5AFCD4480E60 > BF3B5AFCD4480E60.rev" we create a revokation certificate for the old key. Towards the end of the process I found myself wondering if this file should be kept (and why), a short note on that would be great.
- Likewise to the previous point, I found myself wondering why we are keeping the old key files at all, this would also be fantastic to have just a sentence on.