Moving key rings?

[John Clizbe]

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Doug Chamberlin wrote:
> I have installed GPG on a development machine and used this configuration
> to generate a key pair. I have also imported public keys from others.
>
> I now need to copy the key rings being used to a production machine.
>
> Do I have to export my secret key and import it on the production machine
> (along with the other public keys)? Can't I just copy the entire GnuPG
> directory to the new machine and expect everything to work fine?

Yes copying will work. You need the three *.gpg files as well as gpg.conf.

You can also copy the secret and public keyrings to a temp directory on
the new machine and import them directly.

The caveat on importing or export/importing is that secret keys are not
merged and ultimate trust will need to set set for each keypair.

> Using Windows XP 2000 and GPG 1.4.0



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