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labianchin / creating_keys.md
Created August 1, 2016 12:32
Using OpenSSL to create keys for Mac OS X.

Creating Keys

This is a brief guide to creating a public/private key pair that can be used for OpenSSL. While the "easy" version will work, I find it convenient to generate a single PEM bundle and then export the private/public key from that as needed. This document also covers how to add and remove a password from your private key and how to make sure that keychain will automatically unlock it when you sign in.

Just make it work

Generate an ssh key-pair:

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labianchin / gpg-import-and-export-instructions.md
Created November 3, 2015 13:05 — forked from chrisroos/gpg-import-and-export-instructions.md
Instructions for exporting/importing (backup/restore) GPG keys

Every so often I have to restore my gpg keys and I'm never sure how best to do it. So, I've spent some time playing around with the various ways to export/import (backup/restore) keys.

Method 1

Backup the public and secret keyrings and trust database

cp ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /path/to/backups/

or, instead of backing up trustdb...