moving gpg to another PC

[Nic Ferrier]

"Steve Butler" <sbutler@fchn.com> writes:

> Looks like the best thing would be to export both your public and private 
> key rings from the old box and import them into a fresh install of GnuPG on 
> the new box.  I tend to do that when moving between boxes that might have 
> different flavors/versions/packages at the O/S level. 

Hmm... I tried this approach. It didn't seem to work.

Here's what I did:


  source-machine $ gpg --export-secret-key 'X' > secret.key
  source-machine $ gpg --export 'X' > public.key
  source-machine $ scp *.key  dest-machine:/myhomedir

    dest-machine $ gpg --allow-secret-key --import secret.key public.key
   
   gpg: /myhomedir/.gnupg/secring.gpg: keyring created
   gpg: /myhomedir/.gnupg/pubring.gpg: keyring created
   gpg: key FD0EEEAD: secret key imported
   gpg: key FD0EEEAD: no valid user IDs
   gpg: this may be caused by a missing self-signature
   gpg: Total number processed: 2
   gpg:           w/o user IDs: 1
   gpg:       secret keys read: 1
   gpg:   secret keys imported: 1

So that doesn't seem to work.

I could sign the public key but if I did how would I verify the
signature on the dest-machine? The dest-machine doesn't have a valid
secret/public key combination.


Should I seek a solution for this on the developer list?


Nic