Regenerate it. Your private key was just half of a pair of keys, the *public* piece of which you uploaded to GitHub.
Here's my go-to primer when people are having trouble (note: didn't write this) http://sshkeychain.sourceforge.net/mirrors/SSH-with-Keys-HOWTO/ On 24 May 2010 09:58, Galaxy <[email protected]> wrote: > How do I find where I had my key stored? I had it saved in Git Gui but > changed OS and now I don't have the key nor do I know where it used to > be before (i may be able to recover it if I can find out). > > If I can't find my private key, what should I do? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GitHub" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<github%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
