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Last active August 29, 2015 14:26 — forked from chrisroos/gpg-import-and-export-instructions.md
Instructions for exporting/importing (backup/restore) GPG keys

Every so often I have to restore my gpg keys and I'm never sure how best to do it. So, I've spent some time playing around with the various ways to export/import (backup/restore) keys.

Method 1

Backup the public and secret keyrings and trust database

cp ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /path/to/backups/

or, instead of backing up trustdb...

###Useful OS X commands ####(initially by iharosi's Useful OS X commands)

  1. App Store Debug menu

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    defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true