Hello GnuPG mailing list, A friend of mine is running into issues with restoring their private keys after a botched system upgrade. While I don't have details of what exactly went wrong, they do have 3 keys in:
~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg is empy, and their backups don't have any private keys in them. I asked them to run commands on both gpg and gpg2 commands in Trisquel 8, which is based off of Ubuntu 16.04, however, neither gpg --list-secret-keys nor gpg2 show any private keys. I asked them to cross-import public keys from both the gpg and gpg2 public keys exports, and checked to make sure that their public key is installed in their public keyring. We tried touching ~/.gnupg/.gpg-v21-migrated , and all permissions look correct. Unfortunately, none of these methods have imported / activated the private keys. My best guess is that these 3 keys are associated with some older private keys, and were merely left behind. If there is a way to check the fingerprint of the keys they belong to, and to import them, that would be super helpful. Is there a way to do that? Thanks, : ) Andrew
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