On Saturday 17 January 2004 5:42 am, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > hello all, > > i recently formatted my os. i had created my public and private keys > in gpg. Before format, I backed up my $HOME/.gnupg directory. Now I > need to setup everything. How do I use my private key back ? You should be able to just put the contents of your backed-up ~/.gnupg directory into your current ~/.gnupg directory. The files that are of most concern are: pubring.gpg -- all your public keys secring.gpg -- all your secret keys options or gpg.conf -- gnupg options file trustdb.gpg -- the "trust" database -- can be rebuilt if necessary But it shouldn't hurt to just restore everything. -- Wesley J. Landaker - wjl@icecavern.net OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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