The 2.1 branch deprecates all pgp v2 keys. My guess is that your old key was one of those. See https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#nopgp2 for details.
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015, 4:53 PM Philip Neukom <pneu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all. > > I'm having some problems with my key that was created a long time ago > (1994) but updated with new emails over the years. > > I am stuck after searching for an answer so thought I'd ask for some > guidance from the list. I have reviewed the Docs, Mini Guide and HowTos. > > I apologize in advance for the rather lengthy email but I figured I > had to put as much info so you may see what I've tried. > > I moved my keys pubring.gpg, secring.pgp and trustdb.gpg to a new Mac > over the past week. > > I downloaded and installed MacGPG for the GUI. I only installed the GPG > Keychain, GPG Services and MacGPG. > > When I opened the GPG Keychain, all the keys were on the screen for a > brief moment and then the list shrunk and many keys disappeared in > addition to my personal public and secret keys. ??? > > So panic set in and I restored my pubring and secring from backup and > deleted the install of MacGPG. I thought maybe there was a problem > with MacGPG so best to go back to command line Gnupg. > > I installed 2.1.5 from source and found none of my keys in the > pubring and secring. What??? > > So I downloaded and installed 1.4.19, restored the pubring and secring > from backup again and found my public and secret keys are now listed. > This time I generated a revoke just in case and to test the install. > 1.4.19 works fine. > > Now I re-ran 2.1.5 and tried to find my keys. Again they've gone > missing. [# gpg2 --list-keys] None of my keys (pub and sec) are > available in 2.1.5. > > Re-running [gpg --list-keys] with 1.4.19 and my keys are still there. > > Why would v1.4.19 show my pub and sec keys but v2.1.5 wouldn't? I > presume this is something very basic but I'm stumped. I thought v1.x > and v2.x keys were interoperable?? > > Thanks in advance for any guidance, > Philip. > > PS I'm on digest mode so would appreciate if you could cc me directly on > any reply. Thanks. > > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users >
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