Josh Santos <josh@omnidapps.com> writes:
> Just checked, and luckily it seems Ubuntu LTS uses GPG 2.2 - when I saw
> this, was worried my key would have been made incorrectly, but should be
> good.
Which LTS do you refer to? I believe the latest LTS, Ubuntu 24.04, uses
GnuPG 2.4.
/Simon
> This is all new to me :)
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2024, 10:19 PM Justus Winter <justus@sequoia-pgp.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Carlos Henrique Lima Melara <charlesmelara@riseup.net> writes:
>>
>> > Last year I did a small workshop explaining the basics of GPG and
>> > asymetric cryptography to newcomers and helped them to create their
>> > own GPG key so they could join our keysigning party.
>>
>> If you want to create a new OpenPGP key with GnuPG, please make sure to
>> use GnuPG version 2.2.x (i.e. the version available in Debian), not
>> 2.4.x (i.e. the version available in Ubuntu, Fedora, and some other more
>> yolo distributions).
>>
>> If you use GnuPG 2.4.x or newer, you risk creating a non-compliant key,
>> i.e. not an OpenPGP key, but a GnuPG key.
>>
>> Best,
>> Justus
>>