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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Whiskers on February 15, 2013, 04:22 am
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Hey everyone
TL;DR: When I reimport my key after rebooting, it adds it to the “Other keys” section rather than “My personal keys” section.
I'm using TAILS on a USB, and I'm unable to successfully back up my Private key.
So far I've managed to export my private key by doing the following:
Right Click on my key>Properties> “Details” tab > Click Export Complete Key. I then made sure that this back up works, by deleting my key from the “Passwords and Encryption keys” program and reimporting it. The key goes to the correct section of “My Personal keys”
I then back up this Public/Private .asc file by saving it to an separate encrypted USB and reboot my PC.
The problem is when I try to then import this back up of Private/Public key, it adds it to to the “other keys” area, rather than “My Personal Keys”. Therefore it's treating my key as someone elses key which means I can use it to encrypt by not decrypt.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks,
Whiskers.