Accessing my key
Reported by Ryan | February 7th, 2012 @ 02:11 AM
This has been resolved! Thank you Alex. My private keys are at $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg
I restored my computer to before it even had GPGTools. I
downloaded my key from keyserver, but GPG Keychain Access does not
know it is mine. Is there a way to enter my passphrase or must I
create a new key?
I do have data backups. Is there a file to retrieve that will prove ownership of my key? Thanks!
Comments and changes to this ticket
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Alex (via GPGTools) February 8th, 2012 @ 08:25 AM
- State changed from “new” to “wontfix”
Hi Ryan,
I downloaded my key from keyserver, but GPG Keychain Access does not know it is mine. Is there a way to enter my passphrase or must I create a new key?
the keyserver only stores your public key, not the private key. You might want to read more about OpenPGP at:
- https://github.com/GPGTools/GPGKeychainAccess/wiki/Getting-started#...
- http://www.gpgtools.org/intro.html
I do have data backups. Is there a file to retrieve that will prove ownership of my key? Thanks!
That's good. Your private keys were stored at $HOME/.gnupg/secring.gpg. You might want to import it using GPG Keychain Access.
Hope that helped. Please create a discussion at support.gpgtools.org if you have more questions.
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