-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello,
I am relatively new to GNUPG so my apologies in advance if this question is trivial. I have been following the list and have seen discussions of how to fix problems regarding backing up and restoring of keys but I have not seen anything on how to do it properly to begin with. I've just copied my .gnupg directory to a usb key as a backup measure, which I found as a method (more or less) on http://www.glump.net/content/gpg_intro/. I am planning on upgrading my OS and I need to test this backup. How can I make sure my private key and trust assignments were copied properly? Once I have completed my OS upgrade how do I restore my keys and the trust levels assigned to them? I use Thunderbird/Enigmail which is using gpg2 but I originally created my key pair using gpg 1.4. Does this have any ramifications? $ uname -a Linux XXX 4.2.0-38-generic #45~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 9 09:28:50 UTC 2016 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux $ /usr/bin/gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.16 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: ~/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 $ /usr/bin/gpg2 --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.22 libgcrypt 1.5.3 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: ~/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA, ?, ? Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH, CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256 Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224 Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2 Thunderbird 38.8.0 I hope this provides the required information. Please let me know if I should include something else. Best Regards, Duane - -- Duane Whitty du...@nofroth.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJX2WhlAAoJEOJfpr8UVxtkQ/sH/jZm9A0C927WXrEk68jk6+KF Dj3M0KzOqjtb1h6VJJOPWxbbqRFwgnrksnn/Le8CBT0THwobbMd9wdlmT4PRBL6o K0u1ir0bG5HwghYmzH7/nUmVio1c4s7SO8LfxzAW5AzaheTrcRaaCmspoP4fFXo+ eVbegU0RVt0Om9iXIxb8C/Ti1vmNmzT2SYrUraTUMsFYF5bqi1lE+TUhWO3Bi55z kzLqFIVaSq6PfncmdSLzeUEy/4PG3aRRM1VC23jCqeUWUm6Ch2EO7nlWAWJIQqjF xujHiMJzqckufNIC4f6wYSUeuiqGzt32Cj0FNkS8CK8TCeimwQkFaWbooGcwjAQ= =njvq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users