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I recently move from debian to Arch. Before wiping my disk, I did a backup of my ~/.gnupg folder.

I've restored it, but now gpg --list-secret-keys doesn't show anything even if my keys are here:

$ ls -l ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/
total 16
-rw------- 1 me me 423 19 aug  02:34 1BExxx.key
-rw------- 1 me me 423 19 aug  02:34 310xxx.key
-rw------- 1 me me 423 19 aug  02:34 829xxx.key
-rw------- 1 me me 430 19 aug  02:34 D98xxx.key

Have I just lost my gpgkeys ? Or am I missing something here ?

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  • What are the perms on the ~/.gnupg and ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ directories? They need to be 700 (drwx------). BTW, you can recursively check the perms, owner, and group on everything under ~/.gnupg in one command with find ~/.gnupg/ -exec stat -c '%a %A %U %G %n' {} +. Files should be 600 (-rw-------), directories 700. owned by your user and your group. Or just find ~/.gnupg/ -ls if you don't need to see the octal permissions. This is assuming GNU find and GNU stat, other versions are different. Commented Aug 19 at 9:38
  • Thanks for your answer ! All folders are indeed 700 and all files 600. And I've also double check the owner with a chown -R $(whoami):$(whoami) ~/.gnupg. Commented Aug 19 at 10:34
  • Did you also (backup and) restore pubring.kbx? (recent) gpg needs BOTH the gcrypt-level key in private-keys-v1.d/ AND the PGP-level data in pubring. Basically dupe unix.stackexchange.com/questions/772267/… . The safe way to move this data is (was) to --export-secret-keys on the old and --import on the new Commented Aug 20 at 1:25

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