tag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:/discussions/problems/45362-secpubGPGTools: Discussion 2016-02-10T12:00:29Ztag:gpgtools.tenderapp.com,2011-11-04:Comment/378394462015-09-07T09:23:54Z2015-09-07T09:23:54ZHow to recover lost secret key<div><p>Hi Josh,</p>
<p>if your key-backup only consists of the public key that would
indeed be a problem if you lost your secret key.</p>
<p>Do you have a full backup of your computer somewhere?</p>
<p>No key backup and no harddrive backup would mean, the secret key
is indeed lost.</p>
<p>This KB elaborates on that situation: <a href="https://gpgtools.tenderapp.com/kb/gpg-keychain-faq/how-to-revoke-a-key-or-userid-and-can-i-delete-a-key-from-the-key-servers#i-have-lost-access-to-my-secret-key-or-my-passphrase">
https://gpgtools.tenderapp.com/kb/gpg-keychain-faq/how-to-revoke-a-...</a></p>
<p>If there's no way to recover the secret key (take a day to think
if there could be another backup somewhere) your option is to
revoke the key and create a new one. Then have the mails in
questions resent to your new key.</p>
<p>All the best,<br>
steve</p></div>Steve