On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 07:36:31AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote: > 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). I have a backup too. > > > 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 > pub rsa4096 2019-06-24 [C] [expires: 2023-06-24] 5107E66D34788A93E3227C903AB05486C7752FE1 uid [ultimate] Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxx> uid [ultimate] Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> sub ed25519 2019-06-25 [S] [expires: 2021-06-24] sub rsa2048 2019-06-26 [A] [expires: 2021-06-25] There's also a signing key. /Jarkko
