On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 06:25:42PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote: > In a message on February 3 you said, "Can I regenerate a pgp key? I > think my keys where in the gnome keyring or something, backing up > ~/.gnupg/secring.pgp didn't keep my keys :/" [0]
Also, I'm not sure which version of GnuPG you were using, but the 2.1 series does not use '$GNUPGHOME/secring.gpg'. It uses '$GNUPGHOME/private-keys-v1.d' [0]. So, you could lose your private key if you updated from an earlier series and then tried to migrate your installation by coping secring.gpg. [0] https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Configuration.html#index-secring_002egpg-506 https://www.gnupg.org/documentation/manuals/gnupg/GPG-Configuration-Options.html#index-secret_002dkeyring-304
