Re: Recovering private keys in a friend's GPG installation

2020-09-30 Thread Ángel
On 2020-09-21 at 12:58 -0400, Andrew Engelbrecht via Gnupg-users wrote: > My best guess is that these 3 keys are associated with some older > private keys, and were merely left behind. If there is a way to check > the fingerprint of the keys they belong to, and to import them, that > would be

Re: Recovering private keys in a friend's GPG installation

2020-09-22 Thread Werner Koch via Gnupg-users
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 12:58, Andrew Engelbrecht said: > private keys, and were merely left behind. If there is a way to check > the fingerprint of the keys they belong to, and to import them, that > would be super helpful. Is there a way to do that? Unfortunately this is not instantly possible

Recovering private keys in a friend's GPG installation

2020-09-21 Thread Andrew Engelbrecht via Gnupg-users
Hello GnuPG mailing list, A friend of mine is running into issues with restoring their private keys after a botched system upgrade. While I don't have details of what exactly went wrong, they do have 3 keys in: ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg is empy, and their backups don't