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A setup guide to use a personal gpg key for ssh authentication
Here we create the master key. We want only Certify capability: we use the master key only to create the subkeys, Sign - Encrypt - Authenticate capabilities will be assigned to the subkeys.
Run the following command to start the master key generation process. Select the set your own capabilities creation process (type 8)
▶ gpg --full-generate-key --expert
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.9; Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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