If you are into the habit of signing your Git commits, the configuration on Windows has always been pretty straightforward: install Gpg4win, set up your keys in the graphical interface and you’re pretty much done. And sharing those keys inside a development container with Visual Studio Code was even easier: nothing to do!
Well, that was the case until version 4.2 of Gpg4win. I have been banging my head for days now on why this wouldn’t work on a new machine of mine… As it turns out, the way keys are stored by Gpg4win by default has changed: it now uses keyboxd and Visual Studio Code doesn’t know how to handle that. Yet?
The old behaviour can simply be restored by running:
gpg-disable-keyboxd.bat
Done. You may have to recreate your containers for the keys to be picked up in your container.
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