Export gpg to p12 under windows
I think you are using the wrong program; pgpsm
is used to sign, check, encrypt or decrypt using the S/MIME protocol.
I do not have pgp4win
at hand, but according to the man page, this should export your public and secret key:
gpg -o XXXXXXX_private.p12 --export [key id] --export-format pkcs12 --cert
The info on pkcs12
is the following,
pkcs12
Only binary blocks are output; the default file extension is .p12; a signed key must be paired; and input must match exactly one key. In this case, --cert is required.
so I included the --cert
option, without reflection about that option:
--cert
This option is the X.509 issuer long name or the 32-bit or 64-bit key ID, if the signing key is available.
I did some more tests (now with gpg4win), and partially have to contradict myself. The gpgsm
tool in gpg4win describes itself as
gpgsm is a tool similar to gpg to provide digital encryption and sign- ing services on X.509 certificates and the CMS protocol. It is mainly used as a backend for S/MIME mail processing.
which indeed sounds correct.
So, your command posted in the question seems totally sensible, I only have two more clues:
- You can try to use a ASCII armored output via the
-a
option - And there is an option concerning the charset of the exported key, which often is a problem with (especially older) windows programs:
--p12-charset name
gpgsm uses the UTF-8 encoding when encoding passphrases for PKCS#12 files. This option may be used to force the passphrase to be encoded in the specified encoding name. This is useful if the application used to import the key uses a different encoding and thus will not be able to import a file generated by gpgsm. Commonly used values for name are Latin1 and CP850. Note that gpgsm itself automagically imports any file with a passphrase encoded to the most commonly used encodings.
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Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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Choumarin over 1 year
I'm using gpg4win and I'm trying to export my gpg private key to a p12 format (to import it in Lotus Notes). According to my understanding I need to:
gpgsm.exe -o "XXXXXXXX_private.p12" --export-secret-key-p12 0xXXXXXXXX
However, I'm getting the following error : "No secret Key" Actually, gpgsm -K does not return anything at all (where gpg -K works).
What am I missing ?
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Choumarin almost 11 yearsOk I now get the difference between gpg and gpgsm, thanks. However, this command does not work '--export-key-pair' is not a valid option. I have tried --export but then it won't import in Lotus Notes (but the problem might be in Lotus Notes).
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mpy almost 11 years@Choumarin: Sorry, the gpg of gpg4win and the linux version seem to differ significantly. I updated my answer, but I have no possibility to test with Lotus.