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to import a public key:
gpg --import public.key
This adds the public key in the file "public.key" to your public key ring.to import a private key:
NOTE: I've been informed that the manpage indicates that "this is an obsolete option and is not used anywhere." So this may no longer work.
gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import private.key
This adds the private key in the file "private.key" to your private key ring. There's a note (*) at the bottom explaining why you may want to do this. -
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http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/r721.html
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Sharing Secret Keys
NOTE!: the following use cases indicate why the secret-key import/export commands exist, or at least a couple ideas of what you could do with them. HOWEVER, there's some logistics required for sharing that secret-key. How do you get it from one computer to another? I guess encrypting it and sending it by email would probably be ok, but I wouldn't send it unencrypted with email, that'd be DANGEROUS.
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Valerie Bock* --gen-revoke creates a revocation certificate, which when distributed to people and keyservers tells them that your key is no longer valid,
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to import a private key:
gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import private.key
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gpg --export-secret-key -a "User Name" > private.key
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