1 Reply by sparklejess

(8 replies, posted in Bugs & problems)

gnupg is a symbolic package, the programs are gpg and gpgv.

Got it.

'man gpg' tells you most of what you need to know. 

Importing is as simple as putting the following into the terminal:

gpg --import /home/USER/seckey.asc

Exporting is a little different.  The command 'gpg --export-secret-keys' exports all of them, but it just dumps them into the terminal window (try it and see), so you can use '>' to pass them to a text file:

gpg --export-secret-keys > /home/USER/seckey.asc

The mistake I made was to be logged in as root, not 'user' (the same user as is using firefox with firegpg plugin), so I was confusing myself by dealing with root's keys and wondering where my own keys had gone!

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2 Topic by sparklejess

(8 replies, posted in Bugs & problems)

I'm generally very impressed with this bit of software, but I'm having a problem importing and exporting secret keys. 

I understand that the latter *may* be a deliberate security measure, but it's annoying.

More problematic is that I can't import my secret key from elsewhere - it gives me the message 'The selection you are trying to import doesn't contain any valid PGP data.'  I know that the data in question is valid - I've successfully imported it into other pgp-like programs.

I love the applicability of the software, but I can't use it seriously until I find a way around this.  If anybody has any tips, even if they are information about where to find the information and manually pull it out using a text/hex editor etc., I'd be very grateful.

~Jess

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