gpg with Raspberry Pi

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gpg with Raspberry Pi

Postby shinagan » Fri Dec 05, 2014 5:51 am

Hi everyone,

I've tried to get gpg to work but I'm stuck in the process. I've followed the tutorial here :
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG
And after the installation I've noticed that a folder .gnupg had been created in /root/ but not in ~/.
So I did:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'export GNUPGHOME="/root/.gnupg"')
to link gpg to the right folder. I then appended the following lines to gpg.conf, following the tutorial:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'personal-digest-preferences SHA512
cert-digest-algo SHA512
default-preference-list SHA512 SHA384 SHA256 SHA224 AES256 AES192 AES CAST5 ZLIB BZIP2 ZIP Uncompressed
personal-cipher-preferences TWOFISH CAMELLIA256 AES 3DES')
as advised by the tutorial. Then I typed:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '# gpg --gen-key')

But after answering a few questions I always get this error message:
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'We need to generate a lot of random bytes. It is a good idea to perform
some other action (type on the keyboard, move the mouse, utilize the
disks) during the prime generation; this gives the random number
generator a better chance to gain enough entropy.
gpg: agent_genkey failed: No pinentry
Key generation failed: No pinentry')

I've reinstalled gpg, made sure that pinentry was installed too, created ~/.gnupg with the same files etc... -> same error. Does anyone knows what's wrong with "pinentry"?

Thanks!

Alex
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Re: gpg with Raspberry Pi

Postby moonman » Fri Dec 05, 2014 6:52 am

I glanced through arch wiki, and says pinentry is a symlink that by default points to gtk2 binary. Are you running a DE? If not point it to pinentry-curses
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Re: gpg with Raspberry Pi

Postby shinagan » Mon Dec 08, 2014 5:47 am

Hi!
Thanks for the reply. I was not running a DE, and modifying the symlink was indeed the right solution.
Thanks!

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