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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;" class="elementToProof"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Sorry for replying late, this is
my first use with mailing list and I didn't notice your email.</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">Unfortunately, I forgot the gnupg version number on my old linux. But as I created cron tasks to have my system update daily, I think it's up to date with apt.
I'll provide other assistance if you want me to.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I've talked the thing with Andrew Savchenko <andrew@savchenko.net>, but I didn't know I should CC to gnupg-users@gnupg.org to make my mails visible to all users.</span><br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">If you want and permit me to, I will forward all my emails with Andrew here.</span><br>
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When I trying to recover my keys, I found something interesting. (I had shared it with Andrew)</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I'm working on Windows these days, and I found something interesting.</span><br>
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I created a new key pair and then export private key both with "-a" parameter and without.</div>
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Then when I tried to re-import them, the same error occurred with both key files.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: white;">But, when I manually copy content in armored private key file and paste it after "gpg --import" command, it worked as expected.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: white;">To sum up, it seems that if I am restoring a key from file, it won't work.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px; color: black; background-color: white;">If I copy from a armored file and then <span style="margin: 0px; background-color: white; color: black;">paste<span style="margin:0px"> to
shell, it will work as expected.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">I created a linux machine today and all the actions succeeded as expected. I also export my keys and download it to
my windows (both armored and not), and succeeded to import, failed to export to file then re-import.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I'll post my keys,
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environment and version data </span>here once I reach my Windows laptop.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Regards.</span></div>
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