Phew! Who knew generating a GPG key would be so hard?!?
My brand new paw print is 4664476F731B2250
At some point after I get an email address I'll have to go and make an even newer paw print~
Here's the code I had to tape together:
https://gist.github.com/Higgs1/f6771297534024d3c43095af060c0d6b
@foxxy psst..you can attach an email to your existing key!
@foxxy you'll have to redistribute it to everyone of course.
@foxxy also we just use a GUI for key stuff. >,,>
@IceWolf Does the GUI you floofs use have the ability to type in the super secret number?
@foxxy The super secret number? *headtilt*
@IceWolf Ye! Private keys are just a really long super secret number (length is dependant on algorithm). The one I picked happened to be 116 digits long. I had to write some Python code 'cause I couldn't find any GPG UIs that let me enter in the number. They always wanted to pick a random number for me but I didn't like any of them nopers :v
@foxxy OH
are you trying to import a preexisting private key?
@IceWolf Hehe yepyep, that's exactly what I was trying to do.
@IceWolf OH but don't worry! The super secret number in the Python code I linked to above isn't my for realsies private key. And it's definitely not the passcode to my luggage either.
@foxxy hah!
I wonder what happens if you just put the private key into a file and tell a GUI to import it.
@IceWolf Ooooo that is amazing! I will have to do that. Thank yooooo <3
@foxxy Course! =^.^=
For the record you don’t need a new key to add e-mail address. You could make a new User ID and sign it with the existing key.
The… err… pseudocode: https://gitlab.com/sequoia-pgp/sequoia/-/blob/main/openpgp/src/cert/builder.rs#L1012-1023
Btw thanks for the gist, may be useful one day! :)