Deleting secret keys w/o public keys

[Johan Wevers]

Michael Below wrote:

> gpg: key XXXXXXXX: secret key without public key - skipped

I think it should be possible to recreate the public key from the secret key
(of course not the other way around), but I don't know any tools for that.

> each time I encrypt or decrypt something.
> 
> Deleting the keys with --delete-secret-key or
>  --delete-secret-and-public-key doesn't work, that leads to:
> 
> gpg: 0xXXXXXXXX: user not found
> gpg: 0xXXXXXXXX: delete key failed: public key not found

I just tested it with a backup copy of my keyring. Using

gpg --delete-secret-key A32D0F10

with the last number is the key ID of the secret key (see
gpg --list-secret-keys for the ID) works.

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