Why the software is crap

[NdK]

Il 14/11/2014 13:24, david at gbenet.com ha scritto:

> I have cooled. You can export your private key - you can export your public key. You can
> import your private key you can import your public key. In 20 years I have always had the
> same problem - the same error message and have each time created a new set of keys. I have
> done this 4 times.
If all four times you did the same wrong thing, then it's obvious that 
you got the same wrong result.

Just to prove it's your error, I copied my .gnupg from one system 
(str957-142) to another (str957-004), with the most basic method I ould 
think of. I'm not an expert (probably I transferred more than what was 
needed!), but as you can see I succeeded at the first try!

diego at str957-142:~$ gpg --list-secret-keys
/home/diego/.gnupg/secring.gpg
------------------------------------------------
sec   2048R/F9B9D307 2014-11-14
uid                  Diego <test at example.com>
ssb   2048R/3A4AD1C0 2014-11-14

diego at str957-142:~$ tar cvfz GnuPG-backup.tar.gz --exclude random_seed 
.gnupg
diego at str957-142:~$ gpg --clearsign GnuPG-backup.tar.gz

È necessaria una passphrase per sbloccare la chiave segreta
dell'utente: "Diego <test at example.com>"
2048-bit chiave RSA, ID F9B9D307, creata 2014-11-14

diego at str957-142:~$ ls GnuPG-backup.tar.gz*
GnuPG-backup.tar.gz  GnuPG-backup.tar.gz.asc
diego at str957-142:~$ scp GnuPG-backup.tar.gz diego at str957-004:/home/diego

Then on the other PC:

diego at str957-004:~$ tar xvfz GnuPG-backup.tar.gz
.gnupg/
.gnupg/gpg-agent-info
.gnupg/pubring.kbx
.gnupg/gpg.conf
.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/
.gnupg/reader_0.status
.gnupg/pubring.gpg~
.gnupg/secring.gpg
.gnupg/scdaemon.conf
.gnupg/gpa.conf
.gnupg/trustdb.gpg
.gnupg/pubring.gpg
diego at str957-004:~$ gpg --clearsign GnuPG-backup.tar.gz

È necessaria una passphrase per sbloccare la chiave segreta
dell'utente: "Diego <test at example.com>"
2048-bit chiave RSA, ID F9B9D307, creata 2014-11-14

diego at str957-004:~$ gpg --verify GnuPG-backup.tar.gz.asc
gpg: Firma eseguita in data ven 14 nov 2014 14:07:57 CET usando RSA, ID 
chiave F9B9D307
gpg: Firma valida da "Diego <test at example.com>"

> I notice that no one on this list - for all the talk of "oh I've done it" can offer no
> practical information has to HOW. No one. No one. No one knows how to do this simple task.
> In all my 20 years I have never found out how. Perhaps things are different under a Windows
> O/S but on Linux there is NO SOLUTION.
Done just now in Ubuntu. So there's an error on your side.

BYtE,
  Diego.