Hello! Some time ago I have made a backup of my secret key and all the subkeys, and then deleted by-hand the master secret key by rm ~/.gnupg/private-keys-v1.d/[keygrip].key The subkeys were moved to a yubikey. Everything was great. Now I wanted to import my master key for a moment... and here we have a problem. Right now what happens, after running gpg --import secret_key.asc is: 1) gpg complains: gpg: key D444252908A80B6D: "sxrmn" not changed gpg: key D444252908A80B6D/D444252908A80B6D: error sending to agent: Invalid argument gpg: key D444252908A80B6D: secret key imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: unchanged: 1 gpg: secret keys read: 1 gpg: secret keys unchanged: 1 2) gpg -K is aware of the master secret key, though it says it's not there: sec# ed25519 2022-07-06 [SC] 902404424B39514B6126A2F2D444252908A80B6D uid [ absolutne ] sxrmn ssb> cv25519 2022-07-06 [E] ssb> ed25519 2022-07-06 [S] 3) seret subkeys get imported (now they are back on yubikey, but they got imported OK) For reference, the exactly same file on FreeBSD gets imported with no errors at all. "diff" tells, that key exported from FreeBSD is no different from the one I try to import to Gentoo. Therefore I guess it's more a local GPG version problem than problem with the key. Strangely though I am trying to import the key generated on Gentoo, so it seems GPG can't import it's own child. There are however some version differences between FreeBSD and Gentoo. FreeBSD: $ gpg --version gpg (gnuPG) 2.3.3 libgcrypt 1.9.4 Copyright (c) 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .... Gentoo: $ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.35 libgcrypt 1.9.4-unknown Copyright (C) 2022 g10 Code GmbH ... So... any ideas why this happens and what can I do about it? -- xWK