Re: gpg help
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 01:42:55PM +0100, 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 ?
>
Assuming you backed up the entire .gnupg directory, you can just drop it
in to your new home directory as-is. If you had the private key
somewhere else though you are out of luck. You may want to consider
storing your private keys ASCII-armored on paper somewhere very, very safe.
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- From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs_rhlist@softhome.net>