Timeline for What is the correct way to create a backup copy of a PGP key pair?
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| Jun 28, 2021 at 12:08 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
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| Jan 30, 2021 at 0:19 | comment | added | dave_thompson_085 | GnuPG 2.2 export re-encrypts (with the same password) because it must reformat the key from its internal form to the OpenPGP form; see security.stackexchange.com/questions/230450/… | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 11:17 | answer | added | William Rosenbloom | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 3:09 | comment | added | robertspierre | @dave_thompson_085 thanks :) so I only need to save the private key. When I exported the private key, it asked for the password. So I thought that the key was decrypted with the password and then exported. If the key is exported encrypted with the password, why it is asking me the password to export it in the first place? | |
| Jan 29, 2021 at 2:35 | comment | added | dave_thompson_085 | The PGP and GPG private key format (both internal and exported) includes the public key data, always. (This is also true in much other PKC, but not all.) The private key is not plaintext, it is encrypted with a password -- which in fact you must re-enter to do the export though maybe not if you have previously used that key within the lifetime of your agent (usually the same login session). Are you confusing the armor format with plaintext? It's not. | |
| Jan 28, 2021 at 16:29 | history | asked | robertspierre | CC BY-SA 4.0 |