Inability to export and then import my secret key

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Wed Aug 12 12:39:47 CEST 2015


On Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:25, mirimir at riseup.net said:

> Well, GnuPG 1.4 _definitely_ doesn't support importing secret keys. But

That is not correct.  All version support import of secret keys.  What
versions < 2.1 don't allow is merging (updating) a secret key.  This can
be problematic in some cases but most of the time it is sufficient to
delete the secret key first and then import the other version of the
secret key.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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