This is part of a series on GNU Privacy Guard:

  1. Getting Started with GNU Privacy Guard
  2. Generating More Secure GPG Keys: Rationale
  3. Generating More Secure GPG Keys: A Step-by-Step Guide (this post)
  4. Using an OpenPGP Smartcard with GnuPG

In this post, I’ll will cover the generation of a new GPG key and removal of the primary key, one of two mitigation strategies mentioned in the previous post. The next post in the series will demonstrate the second strategy: using this new key with a SmartCard.

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