gnupg 2.0 Multiple keys

Use more than one private keys:

EasyGnuPG does not allow more than one valid key (which is unexpired and unrevoked). What can you do if you need to use more than one private key? You can use different home directories for EGPG, one for each key, and they will not mess with each-other. Let's see an example of doing this.

testuser@laptop:~$ egpg init ~/.egpg1 <<< n

testuser@laptop:~$ egpg init ~/.egpg2 <<< n

testuser@laptop:~$ egpg init ~/.egpg <<< n

Now add these lines to ~/.bashrc:

export EGPG_DIR="/home/testuser/.egpg1"
# Does ".gpg-agent-info" exist and points to gpg-agent process accepting signals?
if ! test -f "$EGPG_DIR/.gpg-agent-info" \
|| ! kill -0 $(cut -d: -f 2 "$EGPG_DIR/.gpg-agent-info") 2>/dev/null
then
    gpg-agent --daemon --no-grab --quiet \
        --options "$EGPG_DIR/gpg-agent.conf" \
        --pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry \
        --write-env-file "$EGPG_DIR/.gpg-agent-info" > /dev/null
fi

export EGPG_DIR="/home/testuser/.egpg2"
# Does ".gpg-agent-info" exist and points to gpg-agent process accepting signals?
if ! test -f "$EGPG_DIR/.gpg-agent-info" \
|| ! kill -0 $(cut -d: -f 2 "$EGPG_DIR/.gpg-agent-info") 2>/dev/null
then
    gpg-agent --daemon --no-grab --quiet \
        --options "$EGPG_DIR/gpg-agent.conf" \
        --pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry \
        --write-env-file "$EGPG_DIR/.gpg-agent-info" > /dev/null
fi

alias egpg1='EGPG_DIR="/home/testuser/.egpg1" egpg'
alias egpg2='EGPG_DIR="/home/testuser/.egpg2" egpg'
export EGPG_DIR="/home/testuser/.egpg"

testuser@laptop:~$ source ~/.bashrc

testuser@laptop:~$ egpg

EasyGnuPG 2.0-1.1    ( https://github.com/easygnupg/egpg )

EGPG_DIR="/home/testuser/.egpg"
GNUPGHOME="/home/testuser/.egpg/.gnupg"
DONGLE=""
KEYSERVER="hkp://keys.gnupg.net"
GPG_AGENT_INFO="/tmp/gpg-1OyoSv/S.gpg-agent:19657:1"
GPG_TTY="/dev/pts/8"
SHARE=no
DEBUG=no

No valid key found.

Try first:  egpg key gen
       or:  egpg key fetch
       or:  egpg key restore
       or:  egpg key recover

testuser@laptop:~$ egpg1

EasyGnuPG 2.0-1.1    ( https://github.com/easygnupg/egpg )

EGPG_DIR="/home/testuser/.egpg1"
GNUPGHOME="/home/testuser/.egpg1/.gnupg"
DONGLE=""
KEYSERVER="hkp://keys.gnupg.net"
GPG_AGENT_INFO="/tmp/gpg-GzhOIA/S.gpg-agent:19661:1"
GPG_TTY="/dev/pts/8"
SHARE=no
DEBUG=no

No valid key found.

Try first:  egpg key gen
       or:  egpg key fetch
       or:  egpg key restore
       or:  egpg key recover

testuser@laptop:~$ egpg2

EasyGnuPG 2.0-1.1    ( https://github.com/easygnupg/egpg )

EGPG_DIR="/home/testuser/.egpg2"
GNUPGHOME="/home/testuser/.egpg2/.gnupg"
DONGLE=""
KEYSERVER="hkp://keys.gnupg.net"
GPG_AGENT_INFO="/tmp/gpg-MMUdsA/S.gpg-agent:19663:1"
GPG_TTY="/dev/pts/8"
SHARE=no
DEBUG=no

No valid key found.

Try first:  egpg key gen
       or:  egpg key fetch
       or:  egpg key restore
       or:  egpg key recover