Problems attemoting to use GPG with a USB watch

[Adam Cripps]

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 08:20:13 +0000, Adam Cripps <kabads at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 11:50:00 -0500, Eric S. Raymond
> <esr at snark.thyrsus.com> wrote:
> > I got a DiskGO USB watch for Christmas.  I put it on my wishlist
> > with the goal of moving my GPG keyring onto it, using GNUPGHOME
> > to direct gpg to look there.  The idea, of course, is to avoid having
> > clear copies of my secret key live on computers that might be breached
> > while I'm not around.
> >
> > I'm using Fedora Core 3, which automounts the watch as a USB storage
> > device accessible through the SCSI layer.  It gets mouunted as
> > /media/usbdisk.  I My keyring lives in a directory on the watch
> > named gpg (without leading period).  Thuism, when the watch is
> > mounted, the keyring is accessible as /media/usbdisk/gpg.
> >
> > The last line of this listing shows that the watch is mounted as a
> > SCSI filesystem:
> >
> > esr at snark:~/svn/gpsd/trunk$ df
> > Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda2             15583200   8321808   6469792  57% /
> > /dev/sda1               101086     16596     79271  18% /boot
> > none                    517036         0    517036   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/sdb5             17639188  14717996   2025172  88% /home
> > minx:/home            25964096  15494624   9150560  63% /nfs/minx/home
> > minx:/usr/local       25964096  15494624   9150560  63% /nfs/minx/local
> > grelber:/home        115377664  85171136  24345632  78% /nfs/grelber/home
> > grelber:/usr/local    37848096   7250720  28674784  21% /nfs/grelber/local
> > /dev/sdc1               127456       318    127138   1% /media/usbdisk
> >
> > This listing shows that the files are accessible and permissions
> > are correct:
> >
> > /media/usbdisk:
> > total 2
> > drwx------  2 esr esr 2048 Jan  3 11:28 gpg
> >
> > /media/usbdisk/gpg:
> > total 316
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 esr esr     18 Mar 12  1999 pgp.cfg
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 esr esr 157532 Mar  1  2000 pubring.bak
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 esr esr 157532 Mar  7  2000 pubring.pkr
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 esr esr    512 Mar  7  2000 randseed.bin
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 esr esr   1769 Jan 14  2000 secring.bak
> > -rwxr-xr-x  1 esr esr   1769 Jan 14  2000 secring.skr
> >
> > I then put GNUPGHOME=/media/usbdisk/gpg; export GNUPGHOME in
> > my .bash_profile.
> >
> > Unfortunately, this seems not to work.  Here are the messages I
> > get when trying to use the keyring on the watch:
> >
> > gpg: lock not made: link() failed: Operation not permitted
> > gpg: can't lock `/media/usbdisk/gpg/secring.gpg'
> > gpg: DBG: oops, `/media/usbdisk/gpg/secring.gpg.lock' is not locked
> > gpg: keyblock resource `/media/usbdisk/gpg/secring.gpg': general error
> > gpg: lock not made: link() failed: Operation not permitted
> > gpg: can't lock `/media/usbdisk/gpg/pubring.gpg'
> > gpg: DBG: oops, `/media/usbdisk/gpg/pubring.gpg.lock' is not locked
> > gpg: keyblock resource `/media/usbdisk/gpg/pubring.gpg': general error
> > gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID 5E995ED4
> > gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> > --
> >                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
> >
> > Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what
> > the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An
> > armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the
> > final defense against tyranny.
> >    If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only
> > the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of
> > our rulers.  Only the government -- and a few outlaws.  I intend to
> > be among the outlaws.
> >         -- Edward Abbey, "Abbey's Road", 1979
> >
> 
> Eric,
> 
> instead of setting $GNUPGHOME, have you tried just setting
> 
> 'secret keyring /path/to/secring.gpg'
> 
> in your gpg.conf file? I did this the other day (with a similar
> present) and it works fine for me.
> 

Hehe -- it's too early here - that should read

'secret-keyring /path/to/secring.gpg'

(added missing hyphen).
Adam

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