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• Gpg Sign Public Key
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The recipient of the message then decrypts the message on their own computer using their private key. This server is a member of the sks-keyserver pool of servers. It hosts OpenPGP keys in a fashion that allows them to be quickly and easily retrieved and used by different client software. GnuPG is a complete and free implementation of the OpenPGP standard as defined by RFC4880 (also known as PGP).GnuPG allows you to encrypt and sign your data and communications; it features a versatile key management system, along with access modules for all kinds of public key directories.

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You may be familiar with public key authentication for Secure Shell (SSH) on your Linode. But you may not have known that you can also use a GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) keypair to authenticate with SSH.

The chief benefit of this method is that instead of having separate keys for GPG messaging and SSH authentication, they can both belong to the same GPG keyring. This configuration really shines, however, when used with a GPG smartcard or YubiKey, because the card/dongle can store the underlying private key and only authenticate SSH sessions when it’s plugged in. WIRED reported that engineers at Facebook use this method for authenticating with local servers, so why shouldn’t you?

This guide will show you how to generate a GPG key, set up your computer to serve it in place of an SSH key, and put the new public key onto your server for authentication. It will also detail how to optionally move your GPG private key onto a smartcard or YubiKey to prevent authentication when the device isn’t plugged into your computer.

Before You Begin

Note

This guide will only work on UNIX-based (Linux & OS X) machines! The process is very complicated on Windows but may be possible with some research.

This guide assumes:

• You have a fully functional Linode
• You have followed the Getting Started and Securing Your Server guides, and updated your Linode with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade)
• You are familiar with the command line

You don’t necessarily need to be familiar with SSH public key authentication or GPG encryption, but an understanding of their operation will help you out if you run into problems.

Generate a GPG Keypair

This section explains how to generate a new GPG keypair. If you already have one, you may skip these steps, as the next section will include instructions for how to create a subkey to use specifically for authentication. You will just need the 8-digit ID for your existing key to do so.

Caution

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As an additional security measure, this process may be undertaken on an offline (non network-connected) machine or single-use Virtual Machine (VM). After installing the pre-requisite packages and only the pre-requisite packages, disconnect it from the network and continue with the steps below.

All of these steps should be performed on a local machine, not your Linode.

1. Install GPG:

   On Debian and its derivatives:

   On OS X:

   GPGTools provides the simplest implementation of GPG for OS X. Otherwise, you could run brew install gnupg2 if you have Homebrew.

   On other operating systems, this process should be fairly clear. GPG is likely already installed, but if it isn’t, a quick internet search should give you the instructions you need.

2. Open a command prompt and execute:

3. When prompted to select the kind of key you want, select (1) RSA and RSA.

4. When asked for a keysize, type 4096. If you want to store your key on a YubiKey Neo or certain smartcards, you may be restricted to a 2048-bit key size, so ensure that you aware of limitations for your device, if applicable.

5. Choose an expiration period that you think will be suitable for this key. After that date, the key will no longer work, so choose carefully.

6. Enter your full name, email address, and a comment (if you want). Select O for ‘Okay’.

7. After looking over your shoulders for secret agents, enter a long and secure passphrase that will be used to encrypt your key in local storage. Write this down somewhere you know to be physically secure while your computer generates the keypair.

Once this is done, your output should resemble the following:

This process has created a master GPG key and a subkey for encrypting messages and files. To authenticate with SSH, we need to generate a second subkey for authentication.

Generating the Authentication Subkey

1. In a command prompt or terminal, type:

   Replace key-id with the eight-character string output from the key generation process. This will be found in the line beginning with pub. In the example above, the ID is 71735D23.

2. At the new gpg> prompt, enter:

3. When prompted, enter your passphrase.

4. When asked for the type of key you want, select: (8) RSA (set your own capabilities).

5. Enter S to toggle the ‘Sign’ action off.

6. Enter E to toggle the ‘Encrypt’ action off.

7. Enter A to toggle the ‘Authenticate’ action on. The output should now include Current allowed actions: Authenticate, with nothing else on that line.

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8. Enter Q to continue.

9. When asked for a keysize, choose 4096. The same limitation from Step 4 in the first section applies, so ensure your card/YubiKey can support this key size.

10. Enter an expiration date, just as before. You should probably keep this the same as the first one. If you choose a lower expiration date, your main private key will continue to function but your SSH authentication will break on this date.

11. When you’re sure all of the information entered is correct, enter y at the Really create? (y/N) prompt to complete the process.

12. Once the key is created, enter quit to leave the gpg prompt, and y at the prompt to save changes.

Your terminal should now look like this:

Secure Your GPG Key

Caution

If you fail to back up or otherwise secure your key, any hardware failure will lead to you being unable to access your Linode with this key. If you lock out password access through SSH, you’ll need to use Lish to regain access.

You should always have a backup of your private key in case something goes wrong and you end up locked out of everything that requires it. This private key, along with the instructions in this guide, will be enough to get your setup working again if you need to start afresh on a new computer.

1. Back up your ~/.gnupg folder with the following command, replacing USB_DEVICE with the name of your device:

   This assumes you have a storage device mounted at /Volumes/USB_DEVICE/. Different operating systems may use different naming conventions for this path. You can safely ignore any Operation not supported on socket warnings that appear when you enter this command.

2. Back up your private key, replacing key-id with the eight-character key ID for your private key:

3. Back up your subkeys, replacing key-id with the eight-character key ID for each subkey:

If something bad happens and you lose your keys, you can re-import them by overwriting the ~/.gnupg directory with your copy, and using:

Be sure to replace key-file with the location of each of your files.

Export Your Public Key

If you’re working on a VM or offline machine, you’ll also need to export your public key to be reimported later:

Be sure to replace key-id with your own key ID.

You can reimport it with the ever-handy gpg2 --import key-file command.

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Move Your Key to a Smartcard or YubiKey (Optional)

Note

If you’re using a brand new YubiKey, you’ll need to enable OpenPGP Card / CCID Mode first. This can be done through the YubiKey Personalization Tool, or by running ykpersonalise -m82. ykpersonalise can be installed through your package manager.

Secure Your Card

It is assumed that you have already configured your card/YubiKey’s (herein referred to as ‘GPG device’) owner information. It is highly recommended that you secure your card before you start this section.

Note

Some of these commands may ask for a PIN or Admin PIN. The default PIN is usually 123456, and the default Admin PIN is usually 12345678. If these don’t work, contact the manufacturer or review online documentation.

1. Plug in the device and execute:

2. Enable admin commands:

3. Enter the password change menu:

4. Change the password to your device by selecting 2 - unblock PIN. This will unblock your PIN, and prompt you to change it. This PIN will be required every time you want to access your GPG key (e.g. every time you authenticate with SSH), and has a limit of eight characters.

5. Change the admin PIN by selecting 3 - change Admin PIN. This PIN is required to make administrative changes, like in step 2, and has a limit of 6 characters. For optimum security, never store this PIN in a digital location, since it will be unnecessary for daily use of the YubiKey.

6. Exit these menus by selecting Q and then typing quit.

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Transfer Your Subkey

1. Enter the key edit menu from a normal command prompt, replacing key-id with your own key ID:

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2. Switch to the private key editor:

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3. Select only the authentication subkey:

   Remember, if you have more subkeys this command should be changed as appropriate.

4. Transfer the key:

5. Select (3) Authentication key to store your key on the third slot of the device. If this is not an option, ensure that you’ve selected the appropriate subkey.

6. Enter your passphrase.

7. Type save License key. to exit this menu.

8. If you’re working on a VM or offline machine, export the subkey stubs (pointers so GPG knows your subkeys are on the device):

   Be sure to substitute your own key ID for key-id. You can reimport these with an ordinary gpg2 --import <stub file> on your private machine.

After all this, your output should resemble the following:

Congratulations! You’ve successfully transferred your authentication subkey to your device.

Caution

If you weren’t using a VM or offline machine, back up your local copies of the private keys, delete them, and ensure that the rest of the keys are still on the card.

Serve Your GPG key Instead of an SSH key

In this section, we’ll configure your local machine so the connection between GPG and SSH works properly.

Return to your local machine, import all of the appropriate GPG keys and insert the appropriate GPG device. Install GPG if you don’t already have it on your local computer (e.g. if you performed all the above steps on a VM).

1. Edit the ~/.bash_profile file (or similar shell startup file) to include:

   Linux:

   ~/.bash_profile

   OS X

   ~/.bash_profile

   This ensures that SSH can ‘see’ your GPG keys and automatically starts gpg-agent as needed.

2. Edit or create ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:

   ~/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf

   If you’re on OS X and previously installed GPGTools, you can also add the line:

   This allows you to use the PIN entry program provided by GPGTools.

3. Restart the GPG agent:

Add the New Key to Your Linode

The steps from the previous sections will take your GPG keys and pipe them through SSH so they can be used for authentication. The result of this process is that you’ve created a new RSA public key for use with SSH authentication.

1. On your local machine, extract the public key:

   You should see a long output of alphanumeric characters. If you see The agent has no identities, try the steps to restart the GPG agent from above.

2. Copy the whole string of output, including ssh-rsa. If you see multiple strings beginning with ssh-rsa, copy the one that ends with cardno:. It might look like this:

3. Paste this into a new file (for example, ~/gpg-key.pub) and save it.

4. Copy the file to your Linode:

5. Log into your Linode and append the key to the authorized_hosts file:

You’re done! Disconnect, and all new logins should now use your GPG key instead of a passphrase. This SSH key can also be used with GitHub, Bitbucket, other SSH-based Version Control Systems, or anywhere else that accepts SSH keys.

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4.5.4 Unattended key generation

The command --generate-key may be used along with the option--batch for unattended key generation. This is the mostflexible way of generating keys, but it is also the most complex one.Consider using the quick key manipulation interface described in theprevious subsection “The quick key manipulation interface”.

The parameters for the key are either read from stdin or given as afile on the command line. The format of the parameter file is asfollows:

• Text only, line length is limited to about 1000 characters.
• UTF-8 encoding must be used to specify non-ASCII characters.
• Empty lines are ignored.
• Leading and trailing white space is ignored.
• A hash sign as the first non white space character indicates a comment line.
• Control statements are indicated by a leading percent sign, the arguments are separated by white space from the keyword.
• Parameters are specified by a keyword, followed by a colon. Arguments are separated by white space.
• The first parameter must be ‘Key-Type’; control statements may be placed anywhere.
• The order of the parameters does not matter except for ‘Key-Type’ which must be the first parameter. The parameters are only used for the generated keyblock (primary and subkeys); parameters from previous sets are not used. Some syntactically checks may be performed.
• Key generation takes place when either the end of the parameter file is reached, the next ‘Key-Type’ parameter is encountered or at the control statement ‘%commit’ is encountered.

Control statements:

%echo text

Print text as diagnostic.

%dry-run

Suppress actual key generation (useful for syntax checking).

%commit

Perform the key generation. Note that an implicit commit is done atthe next Key-Type parameter.

%pubring filename

Do not write the key to the default or commandline given keyring butto filename. This must be given before the first commit to takeplace, duplicate specification of the same filename is ignored, thelast filename before a commit is used. The filename is used until anew filename is used (at commit points) and all keys are written tothat file. If a new filename is given, this file is created (andoverwrites an existing one).

See the previous subsection “Ephemeral home directories” for a morerobust way to contain side-effects.

%secring filename

This option is a no-op for GnuPG 2.1 and later.

See the previous subsection “Ephemeral home directories”.

%ask-passphrase

%no-ask-passphrase

This option is a no-op for GnuPG 2.1 and later.

%no-protection

Using this option allows the creation of keys without any passphraseprotection. This option is mainly intended for regression tests.

%transient-key

If given the keys are created using a faster and a somewhat lesssecure random number generator. This option may be used for keyswhich are only used for a short time and do not require fullcryptographic strength. It takes only effect if used together withthe control statement ‘%no-protection’.

General Parameters:

Key-Type: algo

Starts a new parameter block by giving the type of the primarykey. The algorithm must be capable of signing. This is a requiredparameter. algo may either be an OpenPGP algorithm number or astring with the algorithm name. The special value ‘default’ maybe used for algo to create the default key type; in this case a‘Key-Usage’ shall not be given and ‘default’ also be usedfor ‘Subkey-Type’.

Key-Length: nbits

The requested length of the generated key in bits. The default isreturned by running the command ‘gpg --gpgconf-list’.

Key-Grip: hexstring

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Key-Usage: usage-list

Space or comma delimited list of key usages. Allowed values are‘encrypt’, ‘sign’, and ‘auth’. This is used togenerate the key flags. Please make sure that the algorithm iscapable of this usage. Note that OpenPGP requires that all primarykeys are capable of certification, so no matter what usage is givenhere, the ‘cert’ flag will be on. If no ‘Key-Usage’ isspecified and the ‘Key-Type’ is not ‘default’, all allowedusages for that particular algorithm are used; if it is not given but‘default’ is used the usage will be ‘sign’.

Subkey-Type: algo

This generates a secondary key (subkey). Currently only one subkeycan be handled. See also ‘Key-Type’ above.

Subkey-Length: nbits

Length of the secondary key (subkey) in bits. The default is returnedby running the command ‘gpg --gpgconf-list’.

Subkey-Usage: usage-list

Key usage lists for a subkey; similar to ‘Key-Usage’.

Passphrase: string

If you want to specify a passphrase for the secret key, enter it here.Default is to use the Pinentry dialog to ask for a passphrase.

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Name-Real: name

Name-Comment: comment

Name-Email: email

The three parts of a user name. Remember to use UTF-8 encoding here.If you don’t give any of them, no user ID is created.

Expire-Date: iso-date|(number[d|w|m|y])

Set the expiration date for the key (and the subkey). It may eitherbe entered in ISO date format (e.g. '20000815T145012') or as number ofdays, weeks, month or years after the creation date. The specialnotation 'seconds=N' is also allowed to specify a number of secondssince creation. Without a letter days are assumed. Note that thereis no check done on the overflow of the type used by OpenPGP fortimestamps. Thus you better make sure that the given value makesense. Although OpenPGP works with time intervals, GnuPG uses anabsolute value internally and thus the last year we can represent is2105.

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Creation-Date: iso-date

Set the creation date of the key as stored in the key information andwhich is also part of the fingerprint calculation. Either a date like'1986-04-26' or a full timestamp like '19860426T042640' may be used.The time is considered to be UTC. The special notation 'seconds=N'may be used to directly specify a the number of seconds since Epoch(Unix time). If it is not given the current time is used.

Preferences: string

Set the cipher, hash, and compression preference values for this key.This expects the same type of string as the sub-command ‘setpref’in the --edit-key menu. Rocket league keys generator.

Revoker: algo:fpr [sensitive]

Add a designated revoker to the generated key. Algo is the public keyalgorithm of the designated revoker (i.e. RSA=1, DSA=17, etc.)fpr is the fingerprint of the designated revoker. The optional‘sensitive’ flag marks the designated revoker as sensitiveinformation. Only v4 keys may be designated revokers.

Keyserver: string

List Gpg Keys

This is an optional parameter that specifies the preferred keyserverURL for the key.

Handle: string

This is an optional parameter only used with the status linesKEY_CREATED and KEY_NOT_CREATED. string may be up to 100characters and should not contain spaces. Calibrate mac battery utility. It is useful for batch keygeneration to associate a key parameter block with a status line.

Here is an example on how to create a key in an ephemeral home directory:

If you want to create a key with the default algorithms you would usethese parameters:

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