Generate a Public/Private GPG Key Pair
Submitted by kacy on
I've had problems generating a GPG Key Pair, finaly found that it was because I was trying to generate the key with another user than the one I was logged with...
You must have a console opened to be able to generate the key.
...and a little script found here to automatically launch the gpg-agent :
#!/bin/bash # Decide wether to start gpg-agent daemon. # Create necessary symbolic link in $HOME/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent SOCKET=S.gpg-agent PIDOF=`pidof gpg-agent` RETVAL=$? if [ "$RETVAL" -eq 1 ]; then echo "Starting gpg-agent daemon." eval `gpg-agent --daemon` else echo "Daemon gpg-agent already running." fi # Nasty way to find gpg-agent's socket file... GPG_SOCKET_FILE=`find /tmp/gpg-* -name $SOCKET 2> /dev/null` echo "Updating socket file link." cp -fs $GPG_SOCKET_FILE $HOME/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent
Another little usefull command generating GPG Key Pair (this entropy stuff whatever...) is :
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/zero
When you get "We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform <blabla>" open another shell and launch the command, it will accelerate the generation...








