[Gnuk-users] Small documentation information

NIIBE Yutaka gniibe at fsij.org
Wed Feb 18 01:24:39 UTC 2015


Hello, Micah,

Thanks for your corrections.

On 02/18/2015 01:39 AM, micah wrote:
> "I deactivate seahose-agent. Also, for GNOME 2, I deactivate
> gnome-keyring managing SSH key."
> 
> I really like the word "seahose", but I am pretty sure it is supposed to
> be Seahorse.

Fixed in the source.  I need to merge some information at:

    http://www.gniibe.org/memo/notebook/gnome3-gpg-settings.html


Well, we can find the "sea hose" in the oldest map of Japan:

    Nihonzu (Japanese map) of Kanazawa Bunko:
    http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/1c/51/289ab7d5b4cb8c006c7429acbd0d10d9.jpg

It was considered a body of our big dragon or snake.  Personally, I
still believe the earth is protected by such a imaginary creature.

> 2. http://www.fsij.org/doc-gnuk/gnuk-keytocard-noremoval.html - these
> are the instructions for no-removal of the keys from the PC. I think
> that the *only* difference from the instructions that involve removal is
> that at the very end you *don't* save the changes. It is very easy to
> miss this minor detail, even with the bold :)

I see.  I will change the text, so that I can only address the
difference of instructions.

> However, I performed this procedure with gpg2 (for ed25519), and I found
> that even without saving, it still removed my secret keys! This is a
> surprising change for me, I had to try it a few times to be sure that I
> did not make a mistake. I'm glad I made backups. I dont know if you
> should document this on this page, or if this is a bug in gpg2 that
> should be fixed.

This is a regression in 2.1.  Thank you for your writing to gnupg-devel.
This should be fixed.
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