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Reconstruct Privat GPG key
Aug 30, 2011 - 13:05:30 (15y 65d) Google/translate2Thank You!1Good Post!1Bad Post! link

Hi,

some days ago my Notebook crashed. I'm not sure if I can get my data back. It will take at least some months until I can even try it.

I don't know much about GPG and I don't use it often, but I created one key pair: http://gpg-keyserver.de/pks/lookup?search=0x17AAD2E9&op=vindex

So I know my public key, I know my passphrase and everything I used for creating the key.

Is there any way to reconstruct the private key?

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RE: Reconstruct Privat GPG key
Aug 30, 2011 - 15:42:45 (15y 64d) Google/translate2Thank You!2Good Post!1Bad Post! link

I don't know that much about GPG either but I am pretty sure that you cannot recreate a key pair. If I remember right, this is because the keys are created with the information that you provide plus a bunch of random (or quasi-random) noise. You will never be able to duplicate that noise so you will never recreate the key.

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