Can a private key be copied to another machine?

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On 16-Aug-2002/10:36 -0400, "R. Bradley Tilley" <rtilley@vt.edu> wrote:
>On a Linux system, simply copy the .gnupg directory from your home directory. 
>Be sure to write down the permissions on all the files and the directory 
>itself before you copy it. Place the directory onto the new Linux PC using 
>the same permissions, and you're ready to go... assuming that gpg is 
>installed on both systems.

Tar keeps permissions, and gzip compresses the file, so create a tarball
of the directory like this:

  cd
  tar -zcvf gpgdir.tar.gz .gnupg/

Assuming you don't need to keep anything in the existing ~/.gnupg on the
new machine, just unpack the tarball like this:

  cd
  tar -zxvf gpgdir.tar.gz


Tony
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