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Private key no longer in Keybase encrypted key store #9582

Closed spolu closed 6 years ago

spolu commented 6 years ago

Hi!

I'm surprised to find out that my private key is now longer in Keybase encrypted key store (keybase.io/spolu).

I don't remember asking to remove it and it's no longer on my machines either:

[bitcoin_wallet]$ keybase pgp list
Keybase Key ID:  01018966f8df5e82cee5f725e94525b9a06d6864b816ce762942b1bffa6b452b2fb40a
PGP Fingerprint: 6DFA 0BAC D550 92AA 07D8 AEC9 907A 38FD AFBB 5163
PGP Identities:
   keybase.io/spolu <spolu@keybase.io>

[bitcoin_wallet]$ keybase pgp export -s
▶ ERROR No matching keys found
[bitcoin_wallet]$

I still have the paper key that was used at my sign-up. Is there a way to recover the private key? which actions led to its disappearance from your keyring and my machine(s)?

spolu commented 6 years ago

To close the loop I changed my password in the past which marks the stored (encrypted) private key in keybase's keyring as deleted.

Keybase was kind enough to share with me the triplesec encrypted blob of my old key which I was able to decrypt and reimport in Keybase \o/