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  1. Bug #1565963
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 1565963

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Carlo Wood (carlo-alinoe) wrote :

Hi, I have the same problem; I upgraded from ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04 (one LTS release to the next). To my astonishment afterwards I couldn't get into my bank accounts anymore because I can't decrypt my files!

The output of the original conversion is:

>gpg --decrypt digid.nl.gpg
gpg: starting migration from earlier GnuPG versions
gpg: porting secret keys from '/home/carlo/.gnupg/secring.gpg' to gpg-agent
gpg: key 29BD5E6C7C8DEF37: secret key imported
gpg: key 3232F9CFE80A9EC5: secret key imported
gpg: key 027353B08370CB05: secret key imported
gpg: migration succeeded
gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 6FD2C61D624ACAD5
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

After that I tried running:

>gpg --import < /home/carlo/.gnupg/secring.gpg
gpg: key 29BD5E6C7C8DEF37: "TXXXXX3" not changed
gpg: key 29BD5E6C7C8DEF37: secret key imported
gpg: key 3232F9CFE80A9EC5: "<email address hidden>>" not changed
gpg: key 3232F9CFE80A9EC5: secret key imported
gpg: key 027353B08370CB05: "Carlo (XXXXXX) <email address hidden>" not changed
gpg: key 027353B08370CB05: secret key imported
gpg: Total number processed: 5
gpg: skipped PGP-2 keys: 2
gpg: unchanged: 3
gpg: secret keys read: 3
gpg: secret keys unchanged: 3

Note the 'skipped PGP-2 keys: 2' ?!

What, why? How do I get those back?!