| gabriel rosenkoetter on Sat, 1 Jun 2002 16:20:14 +0200 |
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Hey Kam, how 'bout you wrap your lines at someting under 80 characters
(rather than around 600). It'd make it much eaiser to read and
respond to your emails with any of the standrad Unix MUAs.
On Sat, Jun 01, 2002 at 08:43:29AM -0400, Kam Salisbury wrote:
> I am contemplating a quick reload of my Linux box to Redhat 7.3
> (I have got three 40GB disks now so I am going to try the software
> RAID5 on for size) but I just generated keys and submitted them
> for the next meeting.
Hrm. Usually I'd say "just don't reformat your /home", but that's
not really an option in your case.
> The easiest way our would be to just resubmit the key but can I
> not back them up to a floppy?
No it isn't, yes you could. (Actually, it would probably be safer to
keep your keys *only* on floppy; it means that the security of your
identity is not dependent on the security of your computer.)
> I checked the man page and the site but I am missing the backup
> of the secret keys. Public keys no problem, but the secret keys
> backup is not labeled "Hey, here is how you back up the secret keys
> so you can reuse them somewhere else.) Maybe tar'ing up the ~.gnupg
> directory is enough?
Preserving your .gnupg is enough. But it's not the graceful (or
documented) way. In any case, this most definitely IS in gpg(1):
--export-secret-keys [names]
--export-secret-subkeys [names]
Same as --export, but exports the secret keys
instead. This is normally not very useful and a
security risk. [...]
Hope this helps.
--
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net
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