Accidentally deleted ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg

[Stefan Claas]

Stefan Claas wrote:
 
> Werner Koch via Gnupg-users wrote:
>  
> > On Mon,  6 Jul 2020 09:58, renws said:
> > 
> > > Thanks for your reply. However I've never uploaded the public key to
> > > any keyservers, is it possible to recover the public key from the
> > > private key (I still have ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d)?
> > 
> > If you really can't find a backup of the public key you can create an
> > new key compatible to the old key.  There is no instant way to do this
> > and it requires quite some manual work now; for example you need to
> > figure out the exact key creation time to get the same fingerprint.
> > Decryption can be done simpler.
> 
> Mmmhhh, I was under the impression when he still has the secret key that
> he exports his secret-key (makes a back-up, just in case) re-imports
> and then GnuPG automatically regenerates a pub key from the secret key.

... makes a back-up and then deletes the secret-key in the key ring.

Regards
Stefan

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