Re: gpg, gpa and restoration of keys
From: Bart Martens (bart.martens@advalvas.be)Date: 03/04/02
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From: bart.martens@advalvas.be (Bart Martens) Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 11:09:20 GMT
In article <pan.2002.02.18.21.25.06.883766.14336@elephantstew.org>,
Adam Newton wrote:
> Hi again all,
>
> I have a simple problem with restoring backups of keys to the Gnome
> Privacy Assistant which, as I understand it, functions as a front end to
> GPG. The system is RedHat GNU/Linux 7.2.
It is correct that GPA is a front end to GPG (=GnuPG). Essentially, you want
to restore a backup of your key-pair by putting the key-pair in your
"gnupg keyring". You don't need GPA for this.
> When I created my private and personal keys using GPA, I made backups
> using and saved them off to disc.
How to restore... Depends on what you have backupped. Did you backup the
complete keyring, or did you export the public and private key and made
a backup of these two files?
> Recently, my computer HD died and I was forced to reinstall.
>
> When I came to restore my key backups, things started to get confusing.
>
> I can see no way of restoring my keys from these backups, the in-flight
> help text doesn't seem to be installed at all, and the docs on the
> website don't seem to cover this particular topic.
The docs of GnuPG are quite complete on this. You may want to read them,
if this mail doesn't help.
> So, easy question, can someone tell me how to restore my key backups for
> GPA?
If you have a copy of the exported public key and private key, then you
try this:
$ gpg --import pubkey.txt
$ gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import privkey.txt
If you have only have a copy of the private key, then try retrieving
your public key from the keyserver where you have published the key,
before importing the private key.
If you have a backup of the keyring, then try putting the keyring files
into place, probably the ~/.gnupg directory.
Good luck restoring.
Bart
>
> Pretty please? Any thoughts welcomed, TIA
>
>
> Adam.
>
>
> adamnewton@elephantstew.org
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