How to fix "ERROR key_generate 3355453" / "GENKEY' failed: IPC call has been cancelled"

Peter Lebbing peter at digitalbrains.com
Tue Sep 4 15:39:12 CEST 2018


On 04/09/18 10:08, Fiedler Roman wrote:
> /usr/bin/gpgv --status-fd 2 --homedir /proc/self/fd/nonexistent --keyring key.pub data.gpg

This would open /proc/self/fd/nonexistent/key.pub as the keyring.

From the man page of gpgv:
>               Add  file  to the list of keyrings.  If file begins with a tilde
>               and a slash, these are replaced by the HOME  directory.  If  the
>               filename  does  not  contain a slash, it is assumed to be in the
>               home-directory ("~/.gnupg" if --homedir is not used).

What works for me is:

$ gpgv --keyring ./key.gpg data.gpg

HTH,

Peter.

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