Difference in Public Key

Tim Sally tsally2 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 10 23:10:07 CEST 2008


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Hello,

Before reinstalling my operating system on this computer, I saved my
.gnupg folder.  After the reinstall, I copied over the folder to
my home directory.  My secret key was recognized, just fine, but
I did not have the corresponding public key.  I used gpgsplit to
extract my public key.  Now, what I am wondering is this.
When I export my public key on my computer with:

gpg --armor --export tss at member.fsf.org

I get:
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mQGiBEh6yMIRBADguqPrPjz3D+frb6x3c1jJpQvE3BjOPcs77PB4TrPv+PWLCg0G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=rxYL
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This, however, is different than the public key that I uploaded to
keyservers before I did the reinstall (see here):
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6F8CE1E1

What accounts for this difference?

Thanks,

Tim

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Tim Sally
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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