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How long is GPG key valid?
2 years
primary keys should have a reasonable expiration date (no more than 2 years in the future)
What is a revocation certificate in GPG?
The revocation certificate is a means to mark your key as invalid – in case you lost your secret key, or that your key has been compromised. Of course, this information has to be passed on to all senders.
Can you revoke a public key?
A: The easiest way to do this is: Make a backup of your public and secret keyrings. Revoke your key with pgp -kd youruserid. Extract the revoked key to a file with pgp -kxa youruserid.
How do I transfer my Kleopatra to another computer?
On a Windows PC, GPG stores its keys (both public and private) in %appdata%\gnupg (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\Application Data\gnupg ). So, just drag the secring. gpg file from that folder onto the window of your currently installed version of Kleopatra and select the ‘Import Certificates’ option.
When do I need to Revoke my GPG keypair?
At the end of this post, you should be able to generate your own public/private keypair and a revocation certificate. This certificate is used to revoke your public/private keypair when your private key is compromised or you forget the passphrase for your private key.
Where can I find revocation certificate for GPG?
Maybe the missing password comes to mind or you can recall, that you actually do have a key backup. If your key was created with GPG Suite 2015.06 or later (released: 2015-06-04), a revocation certificate can be found at ~/.gnupg/RevCerts. In that case revocation is easy.
How long does it take GPG to generate public key?
It will take a while for GPG to generate your keys. So you can now do other stuff. It took about 4 minutes on my system to generate my key pair. This first line tells us that GPG created a unique identifier for public key. This unique identifier is in hex format.
Can You Keep Your SEC key in GPG?
Thus you do want to keep the revoked sec/pub key in GPG Keychain. It will do no harm but allow you to keep access to old messages. To keep using your key and revoke only a User ID: