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Chris - 2020-01-30

Hello, everybody,

unfortunately I do not get my private keys imported. I have pub-sec.asc and pub.asc available. But Enigmail only imports the public key.

I have two e-mail addresses, so I have 4 files in total.

System: Ubuntu 18.04
Thunderbird: 68.4.1 (64-Bit)
Enigmail: 2.1.5 (20191231-1524)

What am I doing wrong? ;)
Thanks

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Olav Seyfarth - 2020-01-30

Hi Chris,

pub-sec.asc should be all you need. If you had selected both your keys during export, you'd even only need one file for both keypairs. Apart from the .asc export/import way, there alternatively is a special Enigmail function "Export settings and keys" in Engimail preferences→Transfer settings.

Not sure what happened to your export. Please open pub-sec.asc in a text editor and verify that there is a section that starts with "-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----". If that exists and Enigmail on the target computer still doesn't import that file resulting in secret keys being available, please try the command line:

Open a terminal, type "gpg -v". Verify, that you have a GnuPG version >=2.1. then type "gpg --import PATH-TO/pub-sec.asc" and check the output. Post error messages here, but if you get errors, it's not an Enigmail but a GnuPG issue.

Olav

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Chris - 2020-01-30

Hey, inside my pub-sec.asc:

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
KEY
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----

-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----
KEY
-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----

I have both pub-sec.asv in my downloads folder

Is this correct?:
gpg --import $HOME/Downloads/pub-sec.asc
or
gpg --import $HOME/Downloads/MAILNAME.pub-sec.asc

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Olav Seyfarth - 2020-01-31

Yes, seems OK. Check what output you get. What does 'gpg --list-secret-keys' yield?

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Chris - 2020-01-31

German, but i think u r able to read ;)

$ gpg -v gpg: WARNING: Kein Kommando angegeben. Versuche zu raten was gemeint ist ... gpg: Auf geht's - Botschaft eintippen ...
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Olav Seyfarth - 2020-01-31

Sorry…'gpg --version'. See 'gpg --help' :-)

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gpg --version
gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.4
libgcrypt 1.8.1
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Home: /home/NAME/.gnupg
Unterstützte Verfahren:
Öff. Schlüssel: RSA, ELG, DSA, ECDH, ECDSA, EDDSA
Verschlü.: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,
           CAMELLIA128, CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
Hash: SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
Komprimierung: nicht komprimiert, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2

Olav Seyfarth - 2020-02-01

You have a current version. If you did NOT configure any special paths, Enigmail should find and use that version. But again, after having imported your keys (once), what does 'gpg --list-secret-keys' yield?

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Chris - 2020-02-02

gpg --list-secret-keys <- Nothing ;)

okay, maybe it really is the path.
It's in home/name/snap

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- Patrick Brunschwig - 2020-02-03
  
  Am 2. Februar 2020 20:25:53 MEZ schrieb Chris myyuzz@users.sourceforge.net:
  
  gpg --list-secret-keys <- Nothing ;)
  
  okay, maybe it really is the path.
  It's in home/name/snap
  
  no import of my private keys possible
  
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  What does gpg print when you run gpg --import ?
  
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Patrick Brunschwig - 2020-02-03

It looks like K-9 mangled my answer-- therfore here again:

What is the output of gpg --import $HOME/Downloads/pub-sec.asc ?

Last edit: Patrick Brunschwig 2020-02-03

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> gpg --import $HOME/Downloads/puc-sec.asc
gpg: Schlüssel 1FXXXXXXXXX0E: "NAME NAME  <NAME@MAIL.de>" nicht geändert
gpg: Schlüssel 1FXXXXXXXXX0E: "NAME NAME <NAME@MAIL.de>" nicht geändert
gpg: Schlüssel 1FXXXXXXXXX0E: geheimer Schlüssel importiert
gpg: Anzahl insgesamt bearbeiteter Schlüssel: 2
gpg:              unverändert: 2
gpg:       gelesene geheime Schlüssel: 1
gpg:  unveränderte geh. Schl.: 1

XXX~$ gpg --list-keys
/home/NAME/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
pub   eXXXX9 2019-09-25 [SC] [verfällt: 2024-09-23]
      CCXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX0B0
uid        [ unbekannt] "NAME NAME  <NAME@MAIL.de>" 
sub   cvXXXX9 2019-09-25 [E] [verfällt: 2024-09-23]

pub   rsaXX6 2018-11-23 [SCA] [verfällt: 2023-11-22]
      E7XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX0E
uid        [ unbekannt] "NAME NAME  <NAME@MAIL.de>" 
sub   rsaXX6 2018-11-23 [E] [verfällt: 2023-11-22]

Chris - 2020-02-03

Now that I have installed the version 68.4.2 (64-bit) directly from the Thunderbird homepage it works directly.

The previous version was directly from the "store" of Ubuntu for 18.04 (screenshot). Maybe it is due to the Ubuntu version?

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