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How to export a PGP keypair from GnuPG?
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| Vosges Berge 2004-11-25, 8:45 pm |
| Some time ago I imported a PGP 2.6.3i keypair into a GnuPG
keyring. Now, I want to export the keypair from the GnuPG
keyring, and import it into a keyring that I use with
Quicksilver. Although the keypair is exported using GPGShell,
Quicksilver cannot accept the private key in its keyring. The
public key is imported fine. Is there a way to do this keypair
transfer?
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| BiKiKii Admin 2004-11-27, 7:45 am |
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On 26 Nov 2004, Vosges Berge wrote:
>Some time ago I imported a PGP 2.6.3i keypair into a GnuPG keyring.
>Now, I want to export the keypair from the GnuPG keyring, and import
>it into a keyring that I use with Quicksilver. Although the keypair
>is exported using GPGShell, Quicksilver cannot accept the private key
>in its keyring. The public key is imported fine. Is there a way to do
>this keypair transfer?
>
gpg --armor --output keyfile.asc --export-secret-keys [name]
If you encrypted the secret key, first you
need to convert the secret key protection
from SHA1 hash to 16 bit checksum.
gpg --simple-sk-checksum --edit-key [name]
Then change the password.
command>passwd
You don't need to change the password,
just go through the motions.
Then export the secret key from gpg and import to pgp.
BiKiKii
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| Anonymous 2004-11-27, 5:45 pm |
| In article <41A963F5031@bikikii.ath.cx>
BiKiKii Admin <Use-Author-Supplied-Address-Header@[127.1]> wrote
(edited):
> On 26 Nov 2004, Vosges Berge wrote:
>
> gpg --armor --output keyfile.asc --export-secret-keys [name]
>
> If you encrypted the secret key, first you
> need to convert the secret key protection
> from SHA1 hash to 16 bit checksum.
>
> gpg --simple-sk-checksum --edit-key [name]
>
> Then change the password.
> command>passwd
>
> You don't need to change the password,
> just go through the motions.
>
> Then export the secret key from gpg and import to pgp.
Thank you for the reply. I tried it as suggested. An import now
does take place in Quicksilver, but it's not the keypair. It
appears to be one of the keys, probably the public key only? I
tried imoprting the public key separately, after using the
suggsted commands for th secret key, but Quicksilver didn't
recognize it. 
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