Paperkey question

[Scott Lambdin]

The black helicopters can read the paper copies in your house with
microwaves.


On 2/9/09, David Shaw <dshaw at jabberwocky.com> wrote:
>
> You can't take a public key and just attach the blob to the end.  A
>> secret key is made up of secret key packets.  You need to convert your
>> individual public key packets to secret key packets.  Split the public
>> key into packets, convert the individual packets, then reassemble the
>> key.
>>
>> Run "paperkey --file-format" and it will print out some pointers on
>> how to do this.
>>
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 9:44 AM, ian at ushills.co.uk wrote:
>
> One you have split your key with gpgsplit do you just then add the relevant
>> secret key packets to each key part and then cat them back together.
>>
>
> Please stop top-posting.
>
> Next, you switch the type of each packet from public to secret (i.e. change
> tag 6 to 5, or 14 to 7 for subkeys).  Then cat them all back together again.
>
>
> David
>
>
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