[ic] PGP Mystery

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Sun Jul 14 22:47:01 2002


Quoting TGroup (tgroup77@swbell.net):
> Hello Everyone.  I hope this question belongs here.  I've submitted it to
> the PGP support group several days ago, but no answer.
> I successfully created, thanks to you all, a complicated Interchange Catalog
> with a few thousand products.  I did this on my home computer.  PGP was
> installed on this machine, and uploaded to the hosted Interchange server.
> It works.
> 
> I wanted to duplicate the same PGP key pair on my computer at the office, so
> I can decrypt the cc numbers on that computer.  I downloaded and installed
> the same PGP 7.03 on the office computer, and executed what I believed was a
> key import from a floppy on wihch I thought I had my key pair.
> 
> After testing an order, the decryption was unsuccessful.  The error message
> (paraphrased) warned me that the message could not be decrypted because the
> private key did not match the public key.
> 
> Is there a way to setup the same PGP key pair on two separate computers?

You should be able to just copy over the .gnupg/secring.gpg file to the
appropriate directory.

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