Question regarding the migration of the pgp keyring to gpg

Pramod.R Pramod.R at target.com
Fri Apr 15 15:35:21 CEST 2011


Hey David! 

Thank you so much for your response!

Warm Regards,
Pramod R 
-----Original Message-----
From: David Shaw [mailto:dshaw at jabberwocky.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 7:02 PM
To: Pramod.R
Cc: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Subject: Re: Question regarding the migration of the pgp keyring to gpg

On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Pramod.R wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> We are migrating from pgp 6.5.8 to gpg 1.4.11. I  had a question regarding the migration of the public keys and the private keys:
>  
> Is there a way where I could migrate the entire key ring at one go? I'm currently extracting my keys from pgp using the pgp -dx <key-id> command and then importing each of these into the gpg. Is there one single command which would help me migrate the entire key ring at once?

Yes.  PGP 6.5.8 keyring files are directly importable into GnuPG.  Just find your pubring.pkr and secring.skr files and do:

  gpg --import /path/to/pubring.pkr
  gpg --import /path/to/secring.skr

That will import all of the keys at once.

David




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