The steps I have taken to move my /.gnupg folder Background:
I have two laptops (1) a 32 bit LXD laptop-1 (2) a 64 bit LXD laptop-2 one mouse and one WD 1.0 TB (1,000,202,043,392 bytes) external drive that plugs into the USB port of either laptop-1 or laptop-2 = david@laptop-1:/media/store$. Laptop-1 and laptop-2 are a mirror image of each. They contain the same software. I copied programmes like Thunderbird Firefox from laptop-1 to laptop-2 without any problems. gpg --version david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.11 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: ~/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cypher: 3DES (S2), CAST5 (S3), BLOWFISH (S4), AES (S7), AES192 (S8), AES256 (S9), TWOFISH (S10), CAMELLIA128 (S11), CAMELLIA192 (S12), CAMELLIA256 (S13) Hash: MD5 (H1), SHA1 (H2), RIPEMD160 (H3), SHA256 (H8), SHA384 (H9), SHA512 (H10), SHA224 (H11) Compression: Uncompressed (Z0), ZIP (Z1), ZLIB (Z2), BZIP2 (Z3) david@laptop-1:/media/store$ david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg2 --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.0.17 libgcrypt 1.5.0 Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Home: ~/.gnupg Supported algorithms: Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA Cypher: 3DES (S2), CAST5 (S3), BLOWFISH (S4), AES (S7), AES192 (S8), AES256 (S9), TWOFISH (S10), CAMELLIA128 (S11), CAMELLIA192 (S12), CAMELLIA256 (S13) Hash: MD5 (H1), SHA1 (H2), RIPEMD160 (H3), SHA256 (H8), SHA384 (H9), SHA512 (H10), SHA224 (H11) Compression: Uncompressed (Z0), ZIP (Z1), ZLIB (Z2), BZIP2 (Z3) david@laptop-1:/media/store$ I have GPA Kleopatra Seahorse and Kgpg on laptop-1 and laptop-2. They all make "calls" to gnupg. I at first made a copy of my public key I decided to use Kgpg to save my public key postmaster.asc which I saved to david@laptop-1:/media/store$. It is to be noted that both laptops are "laptop-1" So now All tasks are performed on the 64 bit LXD laptop: (1) david@laptop-1:~$ gpg gpg: directory `/home/david/.gnupg' created gpg: new configuration file `/home/david/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created gpg: WARNING: options in `/home/david/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this run gpg: keyring `/home/david/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/home/david/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created gpg: Go ahead and type your message ... (2) Run ALL your GUIs eg Kgpg Kleopatra GPA - but do not create a new set of keys! Kgpg will complain and not run. (3) Reboot your system - very important! (4) Type david@laptop-1:~$ gpg-agent gpg-agent: gpg-agent running and available david@laptop-1:~$ (5) Then I discovered failings within Thunderbird/Enigmail - I did various test e-mails skip...@gbenet.com to postmas...@gbenet.com ad...@bikermates.org to da...@gbenet.com - all failed to support signing all failed to support encryption. (6) I tried doing backups - I tried deleting pubring - in fact I tried doing everything that was possible to do. Then I switched back to the 32 bit laptop today (15th 11th 2014 and decided to investigate the "problem." gpg --list-secret-keys david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg --list-secret-keys gpg: using PGP trust model /home/david/.gnupg/secring.gpg ------------------------------ sec 4096R/AAD8C47D 2014-08-17 uid postmaster (There's always light at the end of the tunnel) <postmas...@gbenet.com> ssb 4096R/FDDA1EF2 2014-08-17 david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg --output mykey1.asc --export -a AAD8C47D gpg --output mykey2.asc --export -a FDDA1EF2 david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg --output mykey1.asc --export -a AAD8C47D gpg: writing to `mykey1.asc' gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 19 gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 18 david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg --output mykey2.asc --export -a FDDA1EF2 gpg: writing to `mykey2.asc' gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 19 gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 18 But apart from the can't handle public key algorithm 19 and gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 18 I got the two files. But I decided to use: gpg -ao david-private.key --export-secret-keys AAD8C47D david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg -ao david-private.key --export-secret-keys AAD8C47D gpg: writing to `david-private.key' david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg -ao allow-non-selfsigned-uid david-public.key --export FDDA1EF2 david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg -ao david-public.key --export FDDA1EF2 gpg: writing to `david-public.key' gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 19 gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 18 david@laptop-1:/media/store$ Got the same error message. there's something wrong with subkey binding signatures for secret keys. david@laptop-1:/media/store$ gpg --allow-non-selfsigned-uid -ao david-public.key --export FDDA1EF2 File `david-public.key' exists. Overwrite? (y/N) y gpg: writing to `david-public.key' gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 19 gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 18 david@laptop-1:/media/store$ So now am going to shut down "laptop-1" 32 bit LXD and boot up "laptop-1" 64 bit LXD and run: gpg --import --allow-non-selfsigned-uid -ao david-public.key in the hope this will fix the problem. I will post results. The results: david@laptop-1:/media/david/store$ gpg -ao --import --allow-non-selfsigned-uid david-public.key gpg: armour header: Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) pub 4096R/AAD8C47D 2014-08-17 postmaster (There's always light at the end of the tunnel) <postmas...@gbenet.com> sig AAD8C47D 2014-11-15 [selfsig] gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 19 gpg: can't handle public key algorithm 18 sig 32521C09 2014-08-25 Carolyn Hoyle (I respect privacy) <carolynbelk...@yahoo.co.uk> sub 4096R/FDDA1EF2 2014-08-17 sig AAD8C47D 2014-08-17 [keybind] david@laptop-1:/media/david/store$ Now to test emails - the results: skip...@gbenet.com to postmas...@gbenet.com subject test body: test - now send: "Key 0xAAD8C47D not found or not valid. The (sub-)key might of expired." I'm stuck - can you solve this problem? David -- “See the sanity of the man! No gods, no angels, no demons, no body. Nothing of the kind.Stern, sane,every brain-cell perfect and complete even at the moment of death. 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