Restoring a backup key

2010-10-31 Thread Osama Khalid
Hello, When I generated my OpenPGP smartcard, I asked GPG to save a backup version of the key. It did that in an sk_random_letters_and_numbers.gpg file. Now I'm trying to find a way to restore my secret key. Currently, $ gpg --list-secret-keys has no output, but $ gpg --list-keys does list the

Re: Restoring a backup key

2010-10-31 Thread Hauke Laging
Am Sonntag 31 Oktober 2010 17:50:10 schrieb Osama Khalid: Running $ gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import sk_gpg returns in: gpg: key secret_key_id: no user ID gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: secret keys read: 1 Have you imported the public key before? Hauke -- PGP:

Re: Restoring a backup key

2010-10-31 Thread Osama Khalid
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 06:01:10PM +0100, Hauke Laging wrote: Have you imported the public key before? Yes. I do have the public key in my kerying. -- Osama Khalid ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org

2.1.0beta1 - Smartcard Support?

2010-10-31 Thread Chris Ruff
Is it typical for smartcard support not to be in beta versions? [tech...@silence: ~] $ gpg --card-status gpg: invalid option --card-status [tech...@silence: ~] $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.0beta1 libgcrypt 1.4.6 NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT VERSION! It is only intended for test purposes and

Re: Restoring a backup key

2010-10-31 Thread Chris Ruff
Can you edit the key and toggle? Maybe the trust level needs to be set. -- __ Chris Ruff email: jcr...@gmail.com gpg key: 0xDD55B6FC gpg fgpr: 1BA1 71D7 ADA7 1E8B 1623 A43D 283B 2F81 BDD5 B810 -Original Message- From: Osama Khalid

Re: Restoring a backup key

2010-10-31 Thread Osama Khalid
After a chat on the gnupg IRC channel, I found out that the backup gpg made was only partial. It was for one of my secret subkeys. $ gpg --list-keys [...] pub 2048R/5BFA8C2E 2010-10-01 uid Osama Khalid (osamak) osa...@gnu.org sub 1024R/567A2834 2010-10-01 sub 2048R/D023251F

Re: Restoring a backup key

2010-10-31 Thread Osama Khalid
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 02:17:20PM -0500, John Clizbe wrote: Try gpg --edit-key XYZ... toggle bkuptocard sk_random_letters_and_numbers.gpg Thank you, John. The thing is that the card is damaged, and I don't have the secret key in my kerying. toggle - Need the secret key to

Re: Restoring a backup key

2010-10-31 Thread John Clizbe
Osama Khalid wrote: Hello, When I generated my OpenPGP smartcard, I asked GPG to save a backup version of the key. It did that in an sk_random_letters_and_numbers.gpg file. Now I'm trying to find a way to restore my secret key. snip I was wondering about the correct way to do that.

Please remove pgp.mit.edu from keys.gnupg.net

2010-10-31 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
hi gnupg folks-- I just noticed that the keys.gnupg.net pool currently contains pgp.mit.edu as one of the members. This keyserver is not properly syncing with the rest of the global pool. For example, there are keys that have been in the global pool for several weeks that have not migrated into

compile errors

2010-10-31 Thread Derick Centeno
Hi Everyone! I was compiling the latest version of gnupg 2.0.16. The configure process completed well, but the make process failed as follows: .. Making all in tests make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/gnupg-2.0.16/tests' Making all in openpgp make[3]: Entering directory