"David Shaw" wrote in message
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On Feb 19, 2013, at 9:27 PM, John A. Wallace <jw72...@verizon.net> wrote:
A lot of the documentation I see online includes references to files with
names like “foo.pub” or “foo.sec” as if these were public key rings and
secret key rings. However, I am accustomed to seeing keyrings like
“pubring.gpg” and “secring.gpg”. Were the former of these used as keyring
files in the past, but nowadays the latter format are used?
Keyrings of that type are just files with multiple keys concatenated
together. The format is effectively the same no matter what the filename
is.
I've often seen foo.pub / foo.sec as a single key (while the pubring.gpg,
pubring.pgp, or pubring.pkr) is the keyring, but that's just convention.
David
Hi, David. I appreciated your prompt reply. So with a concatenated keyring
in the format "foo.pub" would I first use a command like the following one
if I want to get the keys out of it in order to move them and import them
into a default (i.e., conventional) keyring of the format "pubring.gpg":
gpg --export --no-default-keyring --keyring foo.pub --armor --output
pubkey_file
John
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