-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Tobias Holz wrote: > Hey Folks, > i succesfully installed gnupg on my Win7 machine. I want to use it > with Thunderbird to encrypt personal eMails. > Now I've got some questions: > 1) What does happen if I lose my private key? Can I burn it to a CD/DVD?
If You actually 'lose' Your Private Key [i.e. Secret/Private half of the Keypair] or lose and/or Forget Your Passphrase You are FUBAR. This is why the Enigmail Manual & Quick Start Guide both _strongly_ encourage the generation of a Revocation Certificate [actually just a Special Signature File] which You should then store somewhere away from Your Keyrings. Enigmail has a 'Wizard' for this. :) > 2) Where can I find the key, I just got the passphrase? Under 'OpenPGP' on the toolbar at the top of Thunderbird You will find an item in the Menu labeled 'Key Management' which will graphically display Your Keyring(s). [Hint: the default setting displays nothing until a Key ID or Email Address is entered into the Search Box /unless/ You have checked the box 'Display All Keys'. Where are the actual Keyring(s) in Win 7? The crypto-geek answer is "under %AppData% → Roaming Directory/Folder _or_ C:\Program Files\GnuPG assuming You accepted the Defaults when installing GnuPG. :-\ You can also use WinSearch and enter: secring.gpg or pubring.gpg. This is the Secret Keyring and Public Keyring respectively. If You choose to burn either of these [or both] to a Disk or store them on removable media then I also suggest You include the File trustdb.gpg since this File contains Your Assigned & Calculated Key Trust values. It is located in the same Directory/Folder as the other 2 Files. > I generated the Keys with OpenPGP-Plugin for Thunderbird. I got the > public key (something_stands_here.asc) and encryption works fine :) At the risk of being called a heretic by My fellow Members of the Enigmail Development Team I am also going to recommend a companion GPG Frontend to You for use on Windows: GPGshell [http://www.jumaros.de/rsoft/index.html] is an excellent tool for Key Management [manipulation] that offers many 'clickable' options not available within the Enigmail Key Manager as well as greatly simplifying Command Line usage. [Another Hint: in order to fully enjoy & exploit all of GnuPG's many features some Command Line familiarity is gonna be necessary] Going way out on a limb I am going to assume that You are as yet unaware of the gpg.conf File and it's usefulness. Please do not hesitate to Ask more Questions within this Forum/List as well as accept Google as Your Friend. As Questions specific to Enigmail begin to develop I heartily suggest You also Join the Enigmail Mailing List as well. [https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/enigmail] ;) HTH more than it confuses. :) JOHN ;) Timestamp: Wednesday 24 Feb 2010, 19:32 --500 (Eastern Standard Time) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Public Key at: http://tinyurl.com/8cpho Comment: Gossamer Spider Web of Trust: http://www.gswot.org Comment: Personal Web Page: http://tinyurl.com/yzhbhx iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJLhcVYAAoJEBCGy9eAtCsPQ3oIAIAmFY/3blwse4tNLEV0cNwH G3Z0KnbX2t9XoHqUt+AoLFQDXxvFHivsIAu+7p4z7D4Dy5Zw7ya2+Stdmmf147Sy qmPg647cNT3N2YB/VqW/aq36a2cD82mZr8ltoVa+3VD2s1fwe6o2xcNiP1JbdxZW Gp4/x1lzOALwkD3BCKjuv3SIG8Pyh0AZNKJBrkP6q318WjWOv4J6AAwKD3bRLxSr I3CNTooN0GDVoF7nyc/pETsxQbWSDwy348cwvvpe5im5Y2UYTdqAgqhVbFl9DaRL iC9KrFF2bN158Ot7IInUO2cTU9CUQISuE0HUt5pFzqsFOcFHtqLiBzXoyC1+c3s= =m/vO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
