Hi Veddal,
Thanks for your reply. Sorry I meant to reply to an answer of my original post https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2020-July/063772.html, but I'm a little confused how mailing list work so I might have created a new thread with the same title. Basically, I've accidentally deleted ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg and now I'm not able to see any output from `gpg --list-keys' and `gpg --list-secret-keys'. And I don't have any backup of my public key, so I would like to know whether it's possible to decrypt my files (I've still got ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d, which I think stores my private key?). Tried your suggestions but didn't work for: ➜ .gnupg gpg /home/rws/.gnupg/secring.gpg gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you mean ... gpg: DBG: FIXME: merging secret key blocks is not anymore available gpg: DBG: FIXME: No way to print secret key packets here ➜ .gnupg gpg 6906A68A85C4AEAC gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you mean ... gpg: can't open '6906A68A85C4AEAC' Regards, Wenshan ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, August 11, 2020 7:50 AM, <ved...@nym.hush.com> wrote: > On 8/8/2020 at 3:13 PM, "renws via Gnupg-users"gnupg-users@gnupg.org wrote: > > > Hi, > > I tried --try-all-secrets but it didn't work: > > $ gpg -d --try-all-secrets myfile.txt.gpg > > gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > gpg: decryption failed: No secret key > > I guess I'll have to create a new public key with the same > > fingerprint? I've searched "gpg create public key with same > > fingerprint" but didn't get much luck. Could you please provide > > more detailed how-to instructions? > > == > > It's not clear what you did and what the problem is. Please explain more. > > The Subject is "Accidentally deleted ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg" > > This is not so terrible, as the Secret Keys automatically contain the public > keys, and they can be regenerated from them. > > Try this: > > gpg secring.gpg > (you need to put in the exact path of where the secring.gpg is located, > before the secring.gpg) > > GnuPG will list all the secret keys. It might detect the absence of a > pubring.gpg and automatically create one, but I have not tried it, and do not > have a test system here to try it. > > But > I (have successfully) tried to restore a public key just by the command > gpg keyname of the secret key. > > vedaal _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
