Motivation – Recently we encountered a scenario where Cloud Integration technical team had to import new private PGP key. The steps are straight forward, just to import the secret PGP key 😊with the passphrase…. But, this actually raised a P1 because the existing secret keys were wiped off by the new key and hence failed the existing decryptions for the payroll files.

Thank God, team had the backup of all the keys.

Now the question is how to maintain multiple secret keys in Cloud Integration? Well, the steps are simple.

• Download the secret key.
• Open the downloaded key in a notepad (let’s call it Secret_Key1).
• Create a new keypair using Kleopatra tool using the same passphrase of Secret_Key1 (let’s call it Secret_Key2).
• Open Secret_Key2 in notepad. Copy the Private key and paste under Secret_Key1 private key.
• Import back the Secret_Key1 with passphrase.

 

Let’s explore step wise…

Step1: Download the secret key.

Step2: Open the downloaded key in a notepad (let’s call it Secret_Key1).

Step3: Create a new keypair using Kleopatra tool using the same passphrase of Secret_Key1 (let’s call it Secret_Key2).

Step4: Open Secret_Key2 in notepad. Copy the Private key and paste under Secret_Key1 private key.

Step5: Import back the Secret_Key1 with passphrase.

Probable error: In case of different passphrase, while importing the keys you will encounter error as: The Private key with Key ID XXXXXXXXXX cannot be accessed with the provided password. Please adapt the password for this key.

Solution: All keys in the PGP Secret Keyring must have the same passphrase

Well, using above steps, we can maintain multiple secret PGP keys.

***How to download a secret key through Kleopatra

Any question or feedback will be appreciated!