Stefan Claas wrote: > Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 09:58, renws said: > > > > > Thanks for your reply. However I've never uploaded the public key to > > > any keyservers, is it possible to recover the public key from the > > > private key (I still have ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d)? > > > > If you really can't find a backup of the public key you can create an > > new key compatible to the old key. There is no instant way to do this > > and it requires quite some manual work now; for example you need to > > figure out the exact key creation time to get the same fingerprint. > > Decryption can be done simpler. > > Mmmhhh, I was under the impression when he still has the secret key that > he exports his secret-key (makes a back-up, just in case) re-imports > and then GnuPG automatically regenerates a pub key from the secret key.
... makes a back-up and then deletes the secret-key in the key ring. Regards Stefan -- my 'hidden' service gopherhole: gopher://iria2xobffovwr6h.onion _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
