Copy subkeys to primary key

Ian Hill ian at ushills.co.uk
Sun Feb 8 11:06:13 CET 2009


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Thanks for trying this did not work either, however, I managed to expire
the signing keys and create a new one.

I now have my primary, encryption and signing key that work!

Faramir wrote:
> Ian Hill escribió:
>> For whatever reason I now have two versions of my private key one
>> without the ELG encryption key and primary key, the other without the
>> RSA signing key.
> 
>   I have another idea to try... you have been trying to import the
> subkeys into the key that has the primary key... What about importing
> the main key (and it's subkeys) into a keyring containing the subkeys?
> 
>   I would:
> 
> 1.- Make a backup of my keyrings and trustdb.
> 2.- Export my main key with all it's stuff.
> 3.- Delete my main key (and subkeys).
> 4.- Import the subkeys.
> 5.- Import the main key.
> 
>   If everything goes well, and you finally have all the stuff together,
> I would:
> 
> 6.- Export the mainkey and subkeys.
> 7.- Restore the backed up secring.gpg, pubring.gpg and trustdb.gpg
> 8.- Import the whole key (main with all the subkeys).
> 
>     And in future, I'd try to don't do different edit operations to my
> key in different machines... just in case.
> 
>     Best Regards

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