/gpg-disaster-recovery-procedure

Disaster Recovery Procedure for GnuPG Keys

Overview

Tested procedure for recovery of GPG keys. This is for GnuPG version 2.

Procedure

  1. Preparation

    Remove all existing keyrings

    rm -rf ~/.gnupg

  2. Retrieve private key from secret place, copy contents into a new file ~/restore-key.asc

  3. Import the keys

    Use GnuPG version 2

    gpg --import ~/restore-key.asc

    Make sure the keys are installed

    gpg --list-keys
gpg --list-secret-keys

  4. Delete the key that was imported

     rm -rf ~/restore-key.asc

  5. Test the recovery

    1. Clone the blackbox demo

      cd /tmp && rm -rf blackbox-demo \
&& git clone https://github.com/deepeeess/blackbox-demo.git && cd blackbox-demo

    2. Test the ability to decrypt the file

      blackbox_decrypt_all_files
blackbox_shred_all_files

Reference

blackbox-demo