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OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography

OpenPGP is a non-proprietary protocol for encrypting email using public key cryptography. It is based on PGP as originally developed by Phil Zimmermann. The OpenPGP protocol defines standard formats for encrypted messages, signatures, and certificates for exchanging public keys.

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How do I make a PGP key?

How do I make a PGP key? I'd like to have it for signing PPA uploads and such.
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How to share one pgp-key on multiple machines?

How can I export a pgp-key from one machine and import it to another? The only way I figured out (in seahorse) was to import it to the section other keys. But I want to use one single pgp-key from diffrent machines. Is this easier to solve via…
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Lost PGP private key and want to remove it from keyserver.ubuntu.com

Because of an accidental formatting I've lost two private keys(no backup). I've generated a new one but I want to remove the lost ones from the keyserver.
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If I have multiple OpenPGP keys in GnuPG with the same user ID/e-mail address, how can I distinguish between them?

I have multiple OpenPGP keys that I am managing with GPG. The problem is, they have the same user ID and the same e-mail address. How do I tell GPG the difference when I am, say, encrypting a file?
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How to obtain a S/MIME certificate for e-mail encryption?

There are parties, e.g. enterprises, that uses S/MIME certificates for e-mail encryption. To my understanding Thunderbird has support by default for S/MIME. But I have not found a way to obtain a personal S/MIME certificate to be used on a Ubuntu…
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Couldn't generate PGP key, general error

Now I'm using Ubuntu12.04.04 LTS. I tried to create my gpg key with following steps on "Passwords and Keys" program. I don't know why this error was occurred. According to I skipped some steps.
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How do I discover a PPA's PGP key?

I would like to be able to see the openPGP key of a PPA. I do not wish to add it to my sysetm. I only need to know what the key is. How might I discover this?
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Are all OpenPGP public key server equal?

An error info occur when to execute apt-get update . W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org jessie InRelease: The…
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gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found in ubuntu

when I perform sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ethereum/ethereum this gives me an errors like, gpg: keybox '/tmp/tmpy4v562r0/pubring.gpg' created gpg: /tmp/tmpy4v562r0/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 1C52189C923F6CA9: public key "Launchpad…
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Fetching Ubuntu's OpenPGP keys for verification fails with "not a key ID: skipping"

I have entered this request into the "Terminal" program, per this documentation gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys "8439 38DF 228D 22F7 B374 2BC0 D94A A3F0 EFE2 1092" "C598 6B4F 1257 FFA8 6632 CBA7 4618 1433 FBB7 5451" and…
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How do I create a PGP Key Revocation Certificate in Seahorse

I created a PGP Key using Seahorse in Ubuntu's Passwords and Keys (13.04). To my understanding, creating a revocation certificate for the PGP key is important for a couple of reasons. I don't see any way of creating the revocation certificate in…
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How to match exported OpenPGP public and private key pairs?

I have a few backed up public and private key files. How can I check which public key file corresponds to which private key file? I had generated 2048 byte public and private GnuPG key pairs using gpg --gen-key To backup the public key(s), I…
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I Get "gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found" error while importing google key

Everything was working but suddenly stopped. I just didn't upgrade my Ubuntu 14.04 for two months. Now when I want to upgrade I get some errors. First I run sudo apt-get update: E: GPG error: http://dl.google.com stable InRelease: Clearsigned file…
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Launchpad EDDSA Key

I'm trying to start a PPA and I understand I need to register my OpenPGP key with Launchpad. I have had my PGP key on the Ubuntu keyserver for a long time at: http://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=max+ehrlich&fingerprint=on But…
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what is the PPA's OpenPGP ID?

I'm creating a LiveCD from this guide and came across a line I do not understand: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 12345678 #Substitute "12345678" with the PPA's OpenPGP ID. wondered if anyone can explain what should I…
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