[Gpg4win-users-en] Changing which keypair is the default key

[Andrei Boros]

It would be nice to have a GUI option via GPG4Win to do this.

Regards,
Andrei

On 2024-04-24 10:31 AM, Bernhard Reiter via Gpg4win-users-en wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Dienstag 23 April 2024 20:08:58 schrieb gpg4win--- via Gpg4win-users-en:
>> Hello - I'm trying to change which keypair is my default key. I couldn't
>> see a way to do this within Kleopatra (please let me know if there is!) 
> one way to select the default key in the crypto backend is to set
>   default-key [fingerprint]
> in the gpg.conf configuration file with a text editor.
> (You can create the file, if it does not exist.)
>
>
>> so  after reading p65 of the GnuPG manual
>> (https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg.pdf) I tried each of the
>> following from the command line:
>>
>> gpg --default-key [fingerprint]
>> gpg --default-key [email address]
>> gpg --default-key [name]
>> gpg --default-key [Key ID]
>>
>> These gave me "WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you
>> mean...Go ahead and type your message".
> The command line usage of the option is only for this very command, so
>   gpg --default-key  [fingerprint] --sign ...
> will work, but is not permanent. For it to be permanent is has to go into the
> configuration file.
>
>> I'm using GPG4Win 4.1.0 / GnuPG 2.4.0.
> There is a newer version available which you can download on gpg4win.org.
>
> Best
> Bernhard
>
>
>
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