GPG question:where on the system are my key-pairs?

Nalin Dahyabhai nalin at redhat.com
Tue Oct 28 22:09:01 UTC 2003


On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:50:18PM -0500, Elton Woo wrote:
> > (though you may want to use "gpg --export --armor" to export your public
> > key to a text file, and then import that key into your RPM database).
> Yes. The tutorial does mention this. Though I seem to have succeeded in
> creating my public key, I haven't completed the tutorial, so I don't think
> I've gotten as far as creating my *private* key.

Key generation (in this case) produces a key pair, one private and one
public.  So you already have a private key.  You may be confused because
gpg's --list-keys command lists the keys on your public keyring, not the
secret keyring.

Cheers,

Nalin





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