exporting my private key

[Georg Wilckens]

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On Fri, Mar, 23, 2001 at 13:17:22 -0700, Chris Jones wrote:
> I've searched the online docs, but I can't find an answer to this
> question:

man 1 gpg | grep export-secret -A 8
=20
> I have a GPG key at home, and a different one at work.  As I
> frequently read personal email from work, it would be nice if I could
> respond to personal email at work with a GPG signature that
> corresponds to that address.

Corresponds to the home address you mean?

How about
    gpg  --export-secret-keys [names] -a -o key.asc

on the home machine and
    gpg --import key.asc
=20
on the work machine. If you want to sign something with your home key
use the

   --default-key [homeID]

option to select the home key. Alternatively you can change the
=2Egnupg/options file to select a different default-key.

> The problem is that I can't figure out how to copy my private key from
> one computer to another, without clobbering the private key that's
> already on the destination machine.  Any help?

Should work this way, secret keys are not clobbered. You just have to
remember to select the right secret key then...

Regards,
	Georg
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"I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint.  It was in
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