Key problem

Johannes Schmid johannes.schmid at gmx.de
Fri Oct 13 15:56:48 CEST 2006


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Hi!

OK, I think I misunderstood something.

Anyway, 'gpg --armor --export johannes.schmid at gmx.de' which should do
the right the thing ends up with exactly the same error message.

And it seems like I have no really good backup availible, the error is
in all backups...

Thanks,
Johannes

Werner Koch wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:30, Johannes Schmid said:
> 
>> # gpg --armor --export .gnupg/secring.gpg
> 
> You are trying to export a key with the name ".gnupg/secring.gpg".  I
> dount that this is want you want.
> 
>> gpg: [don't know]: invalid packet (ctb=20)
> 
> Did you ever something like
> 
>   gpg --armor --export > .gnupg/pubring.gpg
> 
> That would be an explanation to see the avove error message.  Anyway,
> restore from your backup.
> 
> 
> Salam-Shalom,
> 
>    Werner
> 
> 
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