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Fixing Keybase/GPG 'Legacy key' errors
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I had used keybase successfully on my Mac. After some time, I went to track someone and got this error:

error: `gpg` exited with code 2
warn: gpg: error reading key: Legacy key

I had no luck googling for answers, but a @mtigas suggested that I try

gpg2 --list-secret-keys

That revealed a very old dsa1024 key I had installed (expired in 2005). I tried

gpg2 --delete-secret-keys 998573AB

but it failed with

gpg: 998573AB: delete key failed: No pinentry

I was able to use Mac OS GPGTools to delete the key, and after that, regular keybase commands worked.

Hopefully this will help someone else with the same problem...

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