KBX Converter

Extract text from KBX files


Drop or upload your .KBX file
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How to extract text from your KBX file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your KBX file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert KBX to another file type

To convert your KBX file to another format, you need GnuPG or other System software.

Convert a file to KBX

To convert other file formats to the "Key Database" file type, you need software like GnuPG or a similar tool.


About KBX files

The .KBX file is a Keybox database, the standard public keyring format for modern GnuPG (GPG 2.1 and later) installations. It typically exists as pubring.kbx and serves as a binary repository for your public certificates and keys. While technically superior to the older legacy formats for software handling, .KBX files present significant friction for users: they are proprietary binary files that cannot be opened in text editors, are essentially locked to the GPG ecosystem, and are not human-readable. You cannot simply copy-paste content from a .KBX file to share a key. To make the data usable for sharing, emailing, or publishing, you generally need to convert the keys into ASCII Armored format (ASC). For compatibility with older systems or legacy PGP software, you may need to export or convert the data back to the classic GPG keyring format.

Convert.Guru analyzes your KBX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted KDBX and XML files.


FAQ

If you want to convert KBX file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use GnuPG or similar software from the "Cryptographic Key Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to KBX, try GnuPG or another comparable tool in the "Cryptographic Key Storage" category.



The KBX Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our KBX converter.