Exporting a private Key

[Hauke Laging]

Am Donnerstag 03 März 2011 11:52:03 schrieb Bairi, Chandra Shekar:

> 1>     How can I back up the secret key while generating the key pair
> from the command line

You cannot. Exception: You generate the key on a smartcard. In that case you 
are asked whether you want to make a backup (IIRC). 


> 2>     If I miss taking the back up of the secret key is there a way to
> export the secret key. Kindly please give the command.

For secret keys stored in a keyring:

--export-secret-keys / --export-secret-subkeys

See the documentation.


Hauke
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