Просмотр списка ключей, когда их еще нет ни одного, выдает следующее:
$ gpg --list-keys
gpg: directory `/home/vasily/.gnupg' created
gpg: new configuration file `/home/vasily/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: WARNING: options in `/home/vasily/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this run
gpg: keyring `/home/vasily/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: /home/vasily/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
$ ls -la ~/.gnupg/
total 56
drwx------ 2 vasily vasily 4096 Aug 27 18:57 .
drwx------ 25 vasily vasily 12288 Aug 27 18:57 ..
-rw------- 1 vasily vasily 9398 Aug 27 18:57 gpg.conf
-rw------- 1 vasily vasily 0 Aug 27 18:57 pubring.gpg
-rw------- 1 vasily vasily 40 Aug 27 18:57 trustdb.gpg
