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@@ -85,21 +85,10 @@ MIGRATION FROM 1.4 or 2.0 to 2.1 The major change in 2.1 is gpg-agent taking care of the OpenPGP secret keys (those managed by GPG). The former file "secring.gpg" will not be used anymore. Newly generated keys are stored in the agent's key -store directory "~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/". - -To migrate your existing keys you need to run the command - - gpg2 --batch --import ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg - -Secret keys already imported are skipped by this command. It is -advisable to keep the secring.gpg for use with older versions of GPG. - -The use of "--batch" with "--import" is highly recommended. If you do -not use "--batch" the agent would ask for the passphrase of each key. -In this case you may use the Cancel button of the Pinentry to skip -importing this key. If you want to stop the enite import process and -you use a decent version of Pinentry, you should close the Pinentry -window instead of hitting the Cancel button. +store directory "~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/". The first time gpg +needs a secret key it checks whether a "secring.gpg" exists and +copies them to the new store. The old secring.gpg is kept for use by +older versions of gpg. Note that gpg-agent now uses a fixed socket by default. All tools will start the gpg-agent as needed. In general there is no more need @@ -111,11 +100,11 @@ of the card related sub-commands of --edit-key are not yet fully supported. However, signing and decryption with a smartcard does work. -The Dirmngr is now part of GnuPG proper. Thus there is no more need -to install the separate dirmngr package. The directroy layout of -Dirmngr changed to make use of the GnuPG directories; for example you -use /etc/gnupg/trusted-certs and /var/lib/gnupg/extra-certs. Dirmngr -needs to be started as a system daemon. +The Dirmngr is now part of GnuPG proper and also used to access +OpenPGP keyservers. The directroy layout of Dirmngr changed to make +use of the GnuPG directories. Dirmngr is started by gpg or gpgsm as +needed needed. There is no more need to install a separate dirmngr +package. |