Pete Stephenson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 2:57 PM, MartinHvidberg <mar...@hvidberg.net> wrote: >> Or do I need to get one of my old computers up and running, hoping to find >> some sort of key file there. > > If you go through your old systems and are able to find the relevant > secret key files or the GPG/PGP keyring files, then you can continue > using that keypair. If you cannot find the secret key, you'll need to > create a new keypair. :/ > On *nix and similar systems (MacOSX, Cygwin) GnuPG stores keyring files in ~/.gnupg (~ = your login directory: /home/<username> or /Users/<username>)
On Windows XP and older, keyring files were stored in <drive>:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Gnupg Windows Vista and newer versions use <drive>:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\gnupg You'll want the contents for all of the directories you can find. A tool such as the linux-based SystemRescueCD [http://www.sysresccd.org/ ] makes this task somewhat easier. You should be able to use the newest set of keyring files directly. The keys in the older keyring files may be imported later. -- John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Gingerbear DAWT net SKS/Enigmail/PGP-EKP or: John ( @ ) Enigmail DAWT net FSF Assoc #995 / FSFE Fellow #1797 hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or mailto:pgp-public-k...@gingerbear.net?subject=HELP Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels"
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