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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Mosdyne on September 07, 2013, 06:50 pm

Title: PGPKey recovery
Post by: Mosdyne on September 07, 2013, 06:50 pm
I have a folder with encrypted files. Problem is my windows crashed one day and luckily everything I find personal, Music, pictures, games etc are on a separate HDD than my OS. but when I reinstalled windows, I had to create a new PGPkey in  GnuPG. because I didn't know how to recover my old one as mine, i was able to add it to the list but only as if it was someone Else's pgpkey that id use for message encryption. what, if any, steps do I take to be able to keep my same PGPkey even when shit goes wrong with my OS? :o
Title: Re: PGPKey recovery
Post by: Feesh on September 07, 2013, 09:32 pm
You'd need to store a backup elsewhere.

A text file, stored on a CD, or on a USB drive, or keep the text file on your non-OS hard drive...

It's not exactly rocket science...
Title: Re: PGPKey recovery
Post by: wellwellnow on September 08, 2013, 12:00 am
If you didn't keep a backup of your old key, it's gone forever.
Luckily, unless you're a vendor, it's not really a big deal, just tell the people sending you encrypted messages that you have a new private key, and send it to them.
Title: Re: PGPKey recovery
Post by: Mosdyne on September 08, 2013, 03:25 am
So all I do is export my key and store it somewhere? when i did that it imported as someone else. meaning, It was my pgp key but I couldn't use it to decrypt, just Encrypt.