Odd error

[Ingo Klöcker]

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On Thursday 13 December 2001 03:56, you wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Len Sassaman wrote:
> > Any idea what would prompt this error?
> >
> > gpg: Ohhhh jeeee: no decrypt() for 17
> > secmem usage: 2016/10528 bytes in 4/6 blocks of pool 10752/16384
> > Aborted
>
> Sent that too fast. I'm using 1.0.6, trying to decrypt a message
> encrypted to my public key 09AC0A6A.

I guess the 17 refers to the key algorithm. From doc/DETAILS:
  17 = DSA (sometimes called DH, sign only)

So it seems that someone managed to encrypt a message with your 
_signing_ key. But as a signing key is not intended to be used for 
encryption gpg can't decrypt the message because there is no decrypt() 
for algorithm 17.

Regards,
Ingo

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