On 07/07/2013 03:10 AM, eMyListsDDg wrote: > now i'm finding out after moving from XP to Win7 that i can't > edit my keys or decrypt email test messages. > > the passphrases to decrypt i have aren't working from command > line or my email app. > > during migration i copied all the files from > <user>\<apps>\gnupg dir on XP to my new machine.
Where do you put them on Windows 7? It is hard to see where they are at for me but I just did a dummy key create on Windows 7 and then copied all of my keys sans the random_seed file over the newly created files I cannot see it right now on Linux due to all of the shortcuts not showing up the same way with NTFS mounted RO on Linux. You didn't say what email program you are using so I assume Outlook which may or may not make a difference. > is there command line opt for gpg2 to run to sync my key > ring or am out of luck after moving to new machine and have > to create new key pairs? I don't have extensive testing but I copied my keys from 32 bit Ubuntu to 32 bit OpenSuSE and Windows XP. I just changed the XP to Windows 7 but I am using 32 bit Windows 7. I did the same there but I do modify the random_seed file with hexedit for each key-ring which some people object to. From my point of view that is far better than just having each key-ring having the same random_seed file. But for Windows 7 I just left the newly created random_seed file in place but copied over all the other files. I have two systems with Windows 7 32 bit on both of them (should have gone with 64 bit - no such thing as PAE on Windows). I don't think you can just copy for Windows XP 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit. Is that what you have? If it is what you have you may need to do a export / import. I can say I have had no problems with my Windows 7 32 bit but I only ran one test which was to verify a file with a detached signature file. I can do the following but I don't read email AT ALL on Windows (I get lots of malware in my email - the wannabee hackers think they can catch me off guard): 1. Encipher a file with my public key on Linux and decipher it on Windows. 2. Symmetrically encipher a file with the TWORISH cipher on Linux and decipher it on Windows. 3. Do the same as the previous two but do the ciphering on Windows and deciphering on Linux. Let me know if it would help to do that (a personal message would be fine). After that I could stand by for some tests using email by enciphering, signing and both. HHH _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
