Better support GPG migrations

After yet another unpleasant experience starting up GPG on a new system, I
decided to encode my learnings and mistakes as aliases, functions, scripts,
hoping to protect my future me from myself. Fingers crossed!
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William Carroll 2019-03-11 18:00:03 +00:00
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# SSHFS
TODO: add explanation about `unison`, `rsync`, etc.
SSHFS enables seamless file transfers from your local machine to a remote
machine.
To install, run:
```bash
$ brew cask install osxfuse
$ brew install sshfs
```
## Usage
Assuming your remote machine is configured in your `~/.ssh/config` (see above),
you can mount your remote machine's home directory on your local machine like
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```
Now your remote machine's home directory can be accessed using the `~/ec2`
directory. This directory can be transparently treated as if it were an ordinary
local directory. To illustrate how easy it is to use, let's install `Vundle`, a
Vim package manager, on our remote machine.
directory. This directory can be treated as if it were an ordinary local
directory. To illustrate how easy it is to use, let's install `Vundle` onto our
remote machine.
```bash
$ git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/ec2/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
```
Voila! We now have `Vundle` installed on our ec2 instance without needing to SSH
into that machine ourselves. That's all there is to it.
Voila! We now have `Vundle` installed on our ec2 instance without needing to
manually SSH into that machine.
# GnuPG
1. Download public key from keyserver. `gpg --receive-keys [KEY_ID]`
2. Transfer backed-up private key information from secure disk
3. Create `[E]` encrypting and `[S]` signing subkeys for personal computer
## Commentary
By default `gpg2` interfaces with `gpg-agent`. `gpg` does not unless
`--use-agent` is specified. I suggest using `gpg2`, but if you must use `gpg`,
add the following entry to `~/.gnupg/gpg.conf`:
Entering a new system?
```bash
$ ./configs/shared/gpg/.gnupg/import.sh path/to/directory
```
use-agent
Leaving an old system? TODO: create a job that runs this periodically.
```bash
$ ./configs/shared/gpg/.gnupg/export.sh [directory]
```
## Reference
- sec: secret key
- pub: public key
- ssb: secret sub-key
- sub: public sub-key
## GnuPG + Git
1. Register newly created `[S]` signing subkey as `signingkey`

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
# Run this script to export all the information required to transport your GPG
# information.
# Usage: ./export.sh [directory]
# TODO: run this periodically as a job.
destination="${1:-$(mktemp -d)}"
if [ ! -d "$destination" ]; then
echo "$destination does not exist. Creating it..."
mkdir -p "$destination"
fi
gpg --armor --export >"$destination/public.asc"
gpg --armor --export-secret-keys >"$destination/secret.asc"
gpg --armor --export-ownertrust >"$destination/ownertrust.txt"
echo $(realpath "$destination")

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
# Run this script to import all of the information exported by `export.sh`.
# Usage: ./export.sh path/to/directory
gpg --import "$1/public.asc"
gpg --import "$1/secret.asc"
gpg --import-ownertrust "$1/ownertrust.txt"
# Run this at the end to output some verification
gpg --list-keys

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alias mdu="mix deps.update"
alias mdup="mix docker.up"
# GPG
alias gpged='gpg --edit-key wpcarro@gmail.com'
alias gpge='gpg --encrypt'
alias gpgd='gpg --decrypt'
alias gpgls='gpg --list-keys'
# Git
alias g="git"
alias glp='git log --graph --pretty=format:"%Cred%h%Creset -%Cblue %an %Creset - %C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset" --abbrev-commit --date=relative'

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export TERMINAL=urxvtc
export EDITOR=emacsclient
export ALTERNATE_EDITOR=nvim
export GPG_TTY=$(tty) # "It is important that this environment variable always reflects the output of the tty command". Source: https://gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg-devel/Invoking-GPG_002dAGENT.html
BROWSER=google-chrome
NIXIFY="$HOME/programming/nixify"