Tails pgp Import

So I I created a new tails USB. And I have my pgp file the dot asc file and for whatever reason it will only import my public key. Wtf. What are my options? I have multiple back ups


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[2 Points] fakephiljennings:

I was in your boat less than 12 hours ago, and was pretty sure I had lost my key due to negligence and improper backups. Turns out whatever version of seahorse is included in tails just sucks importing password protected private keys. What I ended up doing was importing the keys using the gpg command line utility. I'm no expert so I'm not gonna post specific commands, but if you google import private key gpg command line you'll find what you need. Not sure why, but when importing keys into seahorse (the GUI frontend included with tails) it doesn't seem to recognize private keys and prompt for a password to decrypt. Rather it tries to import the encrypted private key and fails. Importing it via command line works though. One thing though. Make sure you're NOT using a root console when you import. If you do, you'll be importing the keys for the root user and nothing will be fixed. ensure you've got the good old fashioned dollar sign prompt to ensure things work as expected.


[1 Points] dutchbob1:

https://tails.boum.org/news/rescue_3.0.1/index.en.html


[1 Points] None:

My guess is you didn't export the private part.


[1 Points] t41m3n:

My advice is to use command line (terminal) get more control. A brief summary ...

to see public keys: gpg --list-key

to see secret keys: gpg --list-secret-keys

import key: gpg --import file

export public key: gpg --armor --output file.asc --export [UID pub key, or part of name / comment / mail]

export secret key: gpg --output privat.pgp --export-secret-key [UID secret key, or part of name / comment / mail]

gpg / gpg2 ---> unix so || gpg2 dot exe ---> win

gpg --help will help you


[1 Points] 1H03:

Now AB's offline do we use new pgp's I have people asking simple opsec??