Can a private key be copied to another machine?

[David Shaw]

On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 12:12:15PM -0500, Larry Hanrahan wrote:
> Gnupg,
> 
>   I have a question concerning private keys.  I currently have a private
> key on my laptop.  Can this same private key be copied to a desktop
> machine and retain the ability to decrypt when I receive an encrypted
> file or do I need to create a new private key and send the public key to
> my various users?
> 
>   If this can be done, what is the process of copying the private key?

Machine A>   gpg --export-secret-key (mykeyid) > mykey.gpg
	(copy file over, presumably in a secure manner)
Machine B>   gpg --import mykey.gpg

David

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