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I am new to PGP and have created a keypair using Kleopatra. The public key is now published on certain sites so ppl can message me securely. The private key is held in Kleopatra software and when I get a message I paste it in and then decrypt and it asks me for the password...

However, I think it is a good idea to back up both the public and private keypair somewhere... but I cannot find a way to do this in the software?

I thought I had done this and it created a .gpg file which I did back up securely months ago.. but I now cannot remember/tell if this contains BOTH pub and private keys?? Because surely they would be in diff files?

I am going to get a new pc and laptop soon and completly securely wipe everything so need to ensure the kaypair is saved somewhere..

can anyone help? i find kleopatra software somewhat confusing to be honest...

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I managed to backup the key pair by right clicking the cert in Kleopatra front-end, clicking 'export private key', and saving to a binary file. It was not clear in the app, but online docs confirmed that the single resulting output file also contains the public key too).

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