On Tuesday August 24 2004 19:36, John Lagrue wrote: > I fairly sure that the answer to this question is a resounding "forget > it", but want to try anyway. > > I have a file that I encrypted some time ago on an FC1 system; it was > encrypted under KDE and generated a foobar.bz2.gpg file. I know the > passphrase that was used to encrypt the file; is there any method by > which I can now retrieve the file contents? The KDE installation has > passed into history some time ago and cannot be retrieved. > > JDL What you need is you gpg keyring usually found in ~/.gnupg. Hopefully you have that backed up.