Passwords and Encryption Keys

[Eero Volotinen]

2011/7/4 Jose Diaz <jose.dbardales at gmail.com>:
> Hi everyone! a few months ago I finally had the time to learned the
> how-to signed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. I have been using Ubuntu for 3
> years now, but I'm not very knowledgeable person when it comes to
> signatures and encryption of emails.
>
> Anyways, I created a PGP Key, sync my key to the Ubuntu key server and
> proceeded to signed the CoC. A few weeks later I decided to jump from
> Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 so I did a backup of my home directory =) and a
> clean installed of Ubuntu.
>
> Now, How do I get my private key back? If I understand correctly PGP
> uses a private and public key. Is my private key somewhere in my backup?

Your gpg keys are stored in keyring, I think default location is
~/.gnupg . just restore it from backups.

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Eero