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Created November 16, 2020 03:24
[Backup and Restore GPG and SSH keys] #git #gpg #ssh

Backup

  1. Copy both id_rsa and id_rsa.pub from ~/.ssh/ to a USB drive. Identify the private key by executing the following command.
    gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG
    
  2. It will show something similar to this.
    sec   4096R/3AA5C34371567BD2 2016-03-10 [expires: 2017-03-10]