Does'nt look good ! i dont have secring.gpg but i doo have one called secring.asc
does that help me? Thanks for the answers! Faramir-2 wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > jakse escribió: >> dear forum. >> >> I am using GnuPG on my mac. had a problem and had to reinstall >> everything... lost all data. > > Unless you have a backup, you can't recover the private key. However, > there are chances you can recover deleted files (unfortunately, if you > reinstalled everything in the same hard drive where you had your > keyring, the chance is very small... and becomes smaller each time you > write something in the hard drive). Now, I am talking about recovering > files with the help of recovery software... I am not talking about > sending the hard drive to an specialized laboratory... > >> from old backup i have some info on my key. The trustdb was created and >> so >> on, and i have a fingerprint for my pub key, "uid" and "sub". however i >> dont >> know what this means?! > > Well, if there is an old backup... maybe you have some luck... Did you > recovered the trustdb? What files do you have in the backup? If you have > a file named secring.gpg then there is a big chance you can recover the > key... Tell us more about the files in your backup... look for files > with 'asc' extension... like mykey_key-pair.asc or something like that... > >> Is there any way i can recover my private key? > > Only if it was backed up, or the area in the hdd where the key was > stored has not been overwritten... unfortunately, I am not a mac user, > so I don't know about any recovery software for macs... > > Best Regards > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJJY/r/AAoJEMV4f6PvczxAetoH/R8lxmS27hd1w8bSMnC26ap8 > uS3Xelwb/pptr91KMf+upnfFtU7JY8Ne1ujB1rk78ttVoc59G8TMRLBG4dsCPA5s > UmmTeapoJlOWO0fQur1MU2oADClGgpYvFbErc9s8nl+JLRY7La4sLiLoW7XNozGG > VFq8cLqG4kX5c6PIRnc3se8mR5vKQhzbbfmwtJanDn89QamrKnQs55dFbIiCAIjy > hC2XCXcb1AvIW6zxOLmzFJJQAprUMvJuJdI45QxWs8GXVyN92ZIIlZM2wFxV31v9 > pmTQP9UQA/4NFn/Kp2GWmWuAWP4ZP5SEI5SEiB4uVJQ8Qa84Fni60DEM0dqSabE= > =Ol5/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/recover-private-key-tp21268023p21367391.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
