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"gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir" when signing git commit on Windows 10

I'm creating gpg keys with Kleopatra (in order to sign my git commits) and while that works perfectly, when I try to list my keys with 

gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG

I get the following errors:

gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir 
`C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Roaming\gnupg'
gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!

I've already changed the permissions for ..\gnupg\ to only "Daniel" and removed the SYSTEM and administrator permissions in the properties window. What else do I have to do?

Solution

  • 1) install Gpg4win

    2) run git config --global gpg.program "C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuPG\bin\gpg.exe"

    Here is the full answer https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/43809#issuecomment-366188770. It helped me.