On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 16:15 +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote: > I have an obstacle with that. > > I lost my previous PGP key a year ago and created a new one, which is > not trusted yet by anyone [*]. I've backed this up now and have it > stored inside Nitrokey Pro 2 in order to prevent this happening > again. I wouldn't do that. If the nitro key gets lost or breaks, you'll be in the same position. Best practice is to have your key offline somewhere in a secure vault (like an encrypted USB key in a bank vault) so you can restore in case of loss and then present inside a token (so I use the TPM2 for mine). > Now the problem is that in order to get a kernel.org account, I need > to be in the web of trust of the kernel maintainers. > > I can request an accunt only after I see face to face another kernel > maintainers, so that I can proof that I am I. > > [*] http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3AB05486C7752FE1 Well, I would sign this and send it back to you, except I can't. The verification procedures require an encrypted email and you don't have a working encryption key: gpg --export -a 3AB05486C7752FE1 | gpg --encrypt -r 3AB05486C7752FE1 -a --output 3AB05486C7752FE1.gpg gpg: 3AB05486C7752FE1: skipped: Unusable public key gpg: [stdin]: encryption failed: Unusable public key The reason is your main key is certification only (as is should be): pub rsa4096/3AB05486C7752FE1 created: 2019-06-24 expires: 2023-06-24 usage: C trust: unknown validity: full but your only encryption subkey is revoked: sub rsa2048/3A4EC6E56FDD3158 created: 2019-06-25 revoked: 2019-10-22 usage: E You seem to have only one unrevoked, unexpired subkey which is an authentication one, so you wouldn't even be able to sign with that key: sub rsa2048/962F0565523E5DC5 created: 2019-06-26 expires: 2021-06-25 usage: A James
