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Exporting Leromg vs exporting Private Key



Myrle A Francis 2nd wrote:
> Hello everyone, and thanks in advance.
> 
> My question is when I export my private key to a file (asciii-armored
> file) does it also export my keyring or is it a seprate process to
> export your priv key and key ring.

from the gpg man page:
>  --export
>    Either export all keys from  all  keyrings  (default  keyrings  and
>    those  registered via option --keyring)
> ...
>  --export-secret-keys
>    Same as --export, but exports the secret  keys  instead.   This  is
>    normally  not  very useful and a security risk.

So it looks like you can do your whole keyring at once, but you have to do
the public and private keys separately.

Matt

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