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Kenbryton 10-20-2015 10:04 PM
What are the names of the opengpg private and public keys
 
greetings,

I want to store my opengpg keys in a safe place but I don't know the names of those keys. I admit, I don't use opengpg at all and I just started with it a few days ago.

I know ssh more than opengpg. For example, in ssh, the keys are named id_rsa and id_rsa.pub.

In opengpg, my directory looks like this

Code:
ls -1 .gnupg/
gpg-agent-info
private-keys-v1.d/
pubring.gpg
pubring.gpg~
random_seed
secring.gpg
trustdb.gpg
which are the public and private keys? :scratch:

chrism01 10-21-2015 12:21 AM
Try this https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/book1.html
Cheatsheet http://irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu/~lockhart/gpg/

Kenbryton 10-21-2015 12:35 PM
Thanks, these links were very helpful and it answered my question.

chrism01 10-21-2015 06:53 PM
You're welcome :)

maples 10-22-2015 07:30 AM
If you're making backups, you might want to take a look at "paperkey"

https://tails.boum.org/doc/advanced_.../index.en.html


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