[slug] Re: Ohhhh jeeee: ... this is a bug

Nori Heikkinen nori+lists-gnupg-users@maenad.net
Sun Mar 30 06:12:02 2003


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on Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:52:00PM -0500, David Shaw insinuated:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 10:09:36PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
>=20
> > > What happens if you do that export using your keyid rather than
> > > letting GnuPG try to pattern match off your email address?
> >=20
> > argh.  i was doing this on my old key, i guess, and forgot about that
> > possibility.  okay, here's better:
> >=20
> > orange:~/.gnupg> gpg --no-comment --export-secret-key 7ede5499 | gpg
> > --list-packets | grep public
> >=20
> > ... produces nothing.
> >=20
> > so i guess i *don't* have a public key in there.
>=20
> You probably do, but under a different keyid.  You can assemble a
> good secret keyring with just the keys you want there.  Just do the
> above command line for each and collect the output into a file -
> i.e.:
>
>    gpg --export-secret-key 7ede5499 > new_secring.gpg
>    gpg --export-secret-key xxxxxxxx >> new_secring.gpg
>    gpg --export-secret-key yyyyyyyy >> new_secring.gpg
>=20
>    etc.
>=20
> You should be able to do 'gpg new_secring.gpg' and see no "pub" or
> "sub" lines. =20

i should?  i *only* get a "sec" line on my own key!  on *anyone*=20
else's, i get the "pub" and "sub" lines!

thanks,

</nori>

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  pgp servers finicky: get my (*new*) key here:
   http://www.maenad.net/geek/gpg/7ede5499.asc
      (please *remove* old key 11e031f1!)

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