Restoring a backup key

[John Clizbe]

Osama Khalid wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I generated my OpenPGP smartcard, I asked GPG to save a backup
> version of the key. It did that in an
> "sk_<random_letters_and_numbers>.gpg" file.
> 
> Now I'm trying to find a way to restore my secret key.
<snip>
> 
> I was wondering about the correct way to do that.

Try
	gpg --edit-key XYZ...
	toggle
	bkuptocard sk_<random_letters_and_numbers>.gpg


-- 
John P. Clizbe                      Inet:John (a) Mozilla-Enigmail.org
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