Adalbert Hanßen <[email protected]> wrote: > He has forgotten the passphrasefor his private key if there ever was one. > Chances are high that itwas made without a password but I am unsure about it.
I have not quite get it: whatʼs preventing you from checking? > At least he did not haveto enter the passphrase when looking at his > encryptedemails, so even if there ever was a passphrase forthe key, it never > had to be entered for years. If so, it may be stored in some pinentry-compatible passphrase storage (such as KWallet or GNOME Keyring, I do not remember what Xfce use) — check there. > I don’t want to delete the old key from Enigmail, just in case he should > remember the passphrase > If I [try to] export the old pair of keys, I will am asked for the passphrase. Yet, nothing impede you from simply backing up the needed keys in GPG own format from ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ and exporting public keys. Or — even simpler — from backing up a whole ~/.gnupg.
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