Problems when importing previously exported private keys on new linux system.

Ángel angel at pgp.16bits.net
Tue Aug 9 22:18:05 CEST 2022


On 2022-08-08 at 13:06 +0000, Vladislav Alekseev wrote:
> So, here is the problem.
> Is there any method to restore my private key or revoke it?
> Why gpg program can't identify my key file? Is the root cause of it
> that I didn't add "--armor" parameter when exporting my private key?
> Thanks.

The missing --armor shouldn't make a difference here.

What was the gpg version in the old system and which is the version in
the new one? Is it possible that the new system is using an *older*
version of gpg?




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