Restoring a backup key

John Clizbe JPClizbe at tx.rr.com
Sun Oct 31 20:17:20 CET 2010


Osama Khalid wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When I generated my OpenPGP smartcard, I asked GPG to save a backup
> version of the key. It did that in an
> "sk_<random_letters_and_numbers>.gpg" file.
> 
> Now I'm trying to find a way to restore my secret key.
<snip>
> 
> I was wondering about the correct way to do that.

Try
	gpg --edit-key XYZ...
	toggle
	bkuptocard sk_<random_letters_and_numbers>.gpg


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