Re: backing up keys

2015-11-21 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 21/11/15 13:09, Peter Lebbing wrote: > GnuPG outputs both a "Secret-Key Packet" as well as all UID's and > binding signatures. It might output all certifications by others on the > key as well; I'm going to write a separate mail about this. Okay, it turns out it was a weird issue with my keyrin

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-21 Thread Peter Lebbing
On 17/11/15 15:53, Andrew Gallagher wrote: > No, there is no public key data embedded in the private key, but you can > regenerate the important mathematical bits of the public key from the > private key, and you can fill in your name, email etc. from memory. So > it's not absolutely necessary - bu

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread Thomas Harning Jr.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:58 AM Andrew Gallagher wrote: > On 17/11/15 12:39, James wrote: > > All, > > > > I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any > > ignorant questions. > > > > (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private > > and public keys

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread Robert J. Hansen
> I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any > ignorant questions. Honest questions get honest and accurate answers. Can't beat that for customer service, can you? :) > (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private > and public keys? Not really

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread Pete Stephenson
On 11/17/2015 1:39 PM, James wrote: > All, > > I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any > ignorant questions. No need to apologize: that's how we all learn. > (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private > and public keys? I've seen some "pape

Re: backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread Andrew Gallagher
On 17/11/15 12:39, James wrote: > All, > > I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any > ignorant questions. > > (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private > and public keys? I've seen some "paper" methods (paperkey) and some > GitHub gists that

backing up keys

2015-11-17 Thread James
All, I'm new to GPG and am hoping to learn the ropes. Please forgive any ignorant questions. (a) are there any recommended methods by which to back up your private and public keys? I've seen some "paper" methods (paperkey) and some GitHub gists that have taken the private key, broken it in severa

Re: backing up keys etc

2008-09-27 Thread Faramir
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Lawrence Chin escribió: > (1) It turns out that I got a revocation certificate made long time ago > for the current key I'm using (8e758d5f) with the file name > "[EMAIL PROTECTED] (0x8e758d5f) rev.asc" and saved on a CD. So, if I > need to revoke t

backing up keys etc

2008-09-27 Thread Lawrence Chin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Okay, thanks for the excellent help, Faramir and Kara. Let me see if I got this right. (1) It turns out that I got a revocation certificate made long time ago for the current key I'm using (8e758d5f) with the file name "[EMAIL PROTECTED] (0x8e758d5f)