Print the text, save the text in password managers, save the text on a USB storage device). In the future, Alice will import this key and use it to encrypt messages for you. This command will generate a file called pubkey.asc. Now he hits the "export private key"-button. First command write output to file my.key and second directly sends an email to your friend. The email address you used when you generated your key will be used to export the key as well. STEP 3: Hit the "export private key"-button. gpg --export EMAIL > pubkey.asc. Where ID is key ID. First Bobby opens the key management through the toolbar. Enter the GPG command: gpg --export-secret-key --armor 1234ABC (where 1234ABC is the key ID of your key) Store the text output from the command in a safe place ( e.g. You should now have a file named my-private-key.asc, located in the current … These two files are binary files with .key extension. Export Your Public Key. STEP 4: Confirm warn message. To make sure the key is stored off the computer somewhere safely. Exporting : gpg --export -a KEYID > publickey.asc: Output a public key to a plain text file: gpg --send-keys KeyID: Upload a public key to a keyserver: Refreshing : gpg --refresh-keys: Check to see if your version of a key is out of date. Another way to move your php keys from one machine to another is to export the keys on the source machine, and then import the keys on the target computer. If so update it. As the original user, use the following command to export all public keys to a base64-encoded text file: gpg -a --export >mypubkeys.asc Use the following command to export all encrypted private keys (which will also include corresponding public keys) to a text file: gpg -a --export-secret-keys >myprivatekeys.asc Now that you've created your key pair, we'll export the public key. 2) Use –export option to export your public key in text file $ gpg –export –a > my.key OR $ gpg –export -a | mail -s “My key” friend@domain.com. To allow the key to be exported to a key server. Within terminal run the command: gpg -a --export -e 'myname@domain.com` > mykey.asc. Others need your public key to send encrypted message to you and only your private key can decrypt it. Where-a –armor: Create ASCII armored output. gpg --export-secret-keys ID > my-private-key.asc. So, first we will export both our public key and private key as follows: yoda:~ ian$ gpg --export -a -o mypublickey.txt ian@atkinson.co.uk yoda:~ ian$ gpg --export-secret-key -a -o myprivatekey.txt ian@atkinson.co.uk yoda:~ ian$ ls my* myprivatekey.txt mypublickey.txt It is now up to you what you do with these two files. 2. Ensure to change 'myname@domain.com' with the email address you supplied when generating your PGP key. To export all of your public php keys and save them to a file, run the command, $ gpg —export > public_keys.pgp. Secondly he opens the key property dialog of his key through the context menu. $ gpg --export --armor john.doe@emaildomain.com --output johndoepub.asc Now you can find that there are two files created under ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/ directory. Now that your key-pair is generated, you need to export the public key to distribute to others. STEP 1: Open the key management. Open a terminal window on your Ubuntu system and enter the following command. 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