Re: recover private key
Once again! Thanks you guys for helping me out! Faramir-2 wrote: Yes, you can send messages to me, and I am sure other people here will volunteer to test encryption with you. You are right, john and I already tested it, i had to send the public key to him by mail though. He could find it on the key server... hmmm?! which is strange since i think i uploaded it at some point in time. Faramir-2 wrote: Well, when I install GPG, the keyrings are empty, so I don't think it comes with a demo... my private key starts with the following: This is a test secret keyring simply stored by GNUPG so that it is easier to make diff files. sec /XXX 2003-12-31 Test one (pp=def) o...@example.com ssb /XXX 2003-12-31 sec /XXX 2003-12-31 Test two (no pp) t...@example.com ssb /XXX 2003-12-31 sec /XXX 2003-12-31 Test three (no pp) th...@example.com How come it has those example mails there?! Faramir-2 wrote: gpg: WARNING: key ECABF51D contains preferences for unavailable gpg: algorithms on these user IDs: gpg: Test three (no pp) th...@example.com: preference for cipher algorithm 1 gpg: it is strongly suggested that you update your preferences and gpg: re-distribute this key to avoid potential algorithm mismatch problems There are several problems: 1.- I downloaded the key ECABF51D from keyservers, and it doesn't have a subkey for encryption purposes, so you can only sign and certify, but not encrypt/decrypt. Hm. I'm starting to think that i may be better of starting over again?! Maybe it is easier if I just try to generate a new key!? I don't know what went wrong when i uploaded to the keyserver?! Faramir-2 wrote: 2.- Also, the key lists in it's preferences, the encryption algorithm IDEA (cipher algorithm 1). And GPG doesn't include that algorithm, because it is not free. It seems it can be used for non-business purposes, but I am not really sure about that, so if somebody sends a message to you, and it is encrypted with IDEA, you would be unable to decrypt it (but I think that is not your worst problem, since as long as you don't get encryption capabilities -by adding a subkey capable of encryption- I *think* people won't be able to send encrypted messages to you). You can download idea.dll and configure gpg to use it, but unless you are sure you are not breaking the copyright... I am NOT sure about that, I have read somewhere it was allowed to use it if you are not doing business, but I am not sure about the reliability of the place where I read that. Also, when I tried to find the company that is supposed to hold de copyright, I couldn't find it on internet... (and since I was just curious about it, I didn't keep searching). do you all use IDEA?! if it is not commonly used i dont think i'll try and get it. Enough work to get the standard algorithm working for me ;) Faramir-2 wrote: Last words: I am not sure if you should add a subkey first, and edit preferences latter, or to edit pref first, and add the key latter... Again: do you think it would be better for me to just start over?! And by the way... why do you all sign your messages here? I'm not sure i have understood the signing idea completely? it is to make sure that the reader knows the sender is the person he/she says he/she is!? right!? hope you are all enjoying the weekend! J -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/recover-private-key-tp21268023p21397920.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: recover private key
Thanks so much! i really think it worked Faramir-2 wrote: *I think* there is a good chance it is what you need. GnuPG uses the files secring.gpg and pubring.gpg to store the private and public keys. But the .ASC file extension is used to store files as armored ascii format, which can be opened as a text file, printed, etc. But the content of an .ASC file is still the same content it would have if it was stored as .GPG (I mean, the format doesn't remove the info). you where right! i did cat secring.asc and it returned my private key! Faramir-2 wrote: I think the command you need is: gpg --import secring.asc That was the right command i think!! NOW! does anyone have the time to test it with me? see - i'm kinda of semi nerdy and really dont know anyone who sends encrypted files... i justed wanted this stuff to work so that i have the skill and posibility to use it when it is needed! J -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/recover-private-key-tp21268023p21386574.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
Re: recover private key
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 Gnupg-users@gnupg.org 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 Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
recover private key
dear forum. I am using GnuPG on my mac. had a problem and had to reinstall everything... lost all data. 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?! Is there any way i can recover my private key? J -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/recover-private-key-tp21268023p21268023.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
