Re: Duplicate personal key in keyring
Hi DIrk, (Not subscribed to the list, so copied initial reply. Top-posting so mail readers will more easily filter) My backup was simply a full copy of my .gnupg directory, so that I could easily just destroy the new one and restore if anything failed. I'll try your suggestion, thanks! - Justin Hello Justin. Am Montag, den 21.05.2018, 11:25 -0500 schrieb Justin Hibbits: > Through some unknown series of events, I now have two copies of my > personal gpg key in my keyring. I double-checked to see if GPG is > seeing the same key in two keyrings (maybe reading a backup), but > both > keys are being read from the same keyring. > This leads me to two questions: > 1) How could this happen in the first place? I had a similar problem a while ago. In my case the key database was corrupted. > 2) How can I fix this, short of generating a new key and revoking the > existing key? In my case I exported the public and the private keys of my own keys, then exported the complete public key ring, both ascii armored. Then I simply deleted the key database file(s) and re-imported the exports. GPG imports keys only once, so the duplicates should vanish when re- importing. > I've tried backing up the keyring and deleting one copy, but it > deleted both copies. I searched online for anyone else who had a > similar issue, and came up empty, except for one person who was > seeing the same key from two files. Did you make an ascii armored export, or what kind of Backup do you mean? Regards, Dirk ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: Duplicate personal key in keyring
Hello Justin. Am Montag, den 21.05.2018, 11:25 -0500 schrieb Justin Hibbits: > Through some unknown series of events, I now have two copies of my > personal gpg key in my keyring. I double-checked to see if GPG is > seeing the same key in two keyrings (maybe reading a backup), but > both > keys are being read from the same keyring. > This leads me to two questions: > 1) How could this happen in the first place? I had a similar problem a while ago. In my case the key database was corrupted. > 2) How can I fix this, short of generating a new key and revoking the > existing key? In my case I exported the public and the private keys of my own keys, then exported the complete public key ring, both ascii armored. Then I simply deleted the key database file(s) and re-imported the exports. GPG imports keys only once, so the duplicates should vanish when re- importing. > I've tried backing up the keyring and deleting one copy, but it > deleted both copies. I searched online for anyone else who had a > similar issue, and came up empty, except for one person who was > seeing the same key from two files. Did you make an ascii armored export, or what kind of Backup do you mean? Regards, Dirk -- Dirk Gottschalk Paulusstrasse 6-8 52064 Aachen Tel.: +49 1573 1152350 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Duplicate personal key in keyring
Through some unknown series of events, I now have two copies of my personal gpg key in my keyring. I double-checked to see if GPG is seeing the same key in two keyrings (maybe reading a backup), but both keys are being read from the same keyring. This leads me to two questions: 1) How could this happen in the first place? 2) How can I fix this, short of generating a new key and revoking the existing key? I've tried backing up the keyring and deleting one copy, but it deleted both copies. I searched online for anyone else who had a similar issue, and came up empty, except for one person who was seeing the same key from two files. Any help is appreciated. As a last resort I could revoke the key and generate a new one, but I would like to avoid that if possible. Thanks, Justin Hibbits ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
