Re-establish keys

[David Shaw]

On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:52:32AM -0400, eemaestro at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am in the process of reformatting my hard drive (ext3).   I copied
> my user files from the hard drive onto backup medium, but I forgot to
> copy the .gnupg/ contents.
> 
> My public key is on the MIT PGP server.    I know my passphrase.   So
> how do I reestablish my keys on the newly reformatted hard drive, in
> order to decrypt my files?

Without the secret key, you cannot decrypt.  If you no longer have it,
you're stuck.

Sorry.

David