The World Crypto Network Podcast How to Setup Your Yubikey with Your GPG Subkeys
Feb 20, 2019
Tone Vays, a former Wall Street risk analyst and independent content creator, dives into the intricacies of securing digital identities. He shares a step-by-step guide on integrating a YubiKey with a GPG key ring for enhanced security. Listeners will learn about key management, the importance of changing pins, and how to effectively back up sensitive data. Tone emphasizes the critical role of this technology in promoting economic freedom and protecting personal information in an increasingly digital world.
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Secure Your YubiKey PINs
- Change both your YubiKey admin and regular PINs to secure random numbers for protection.
- Back up these PINs multiple times on different media to avoid losing access to your keys.
Move GPG Subkeys to YubiKey
- Transfer your GPG subkeys onto the YubiKey using the GPG key edit commands.
- Move signing, encryption, and authentication keys one by one to the device then save changes.
Publish Your Public Key Carefully
- Export your full public key to an external USB stick to share your new master key.
- Upload your public key to key servers carefully, as uploads are permanent and distributed indefinitely.