Decrypting with private key and public key is missing

[Guru_i]

Thank you all your response. I will try with "gpgsplit". But I do have secret
key in my seckeyring

C:/Documents and Settings/xxxxx/Application Data/gnupg\secring.gpg
---------------------------------------------------------------------
sec   1024R/FBCFC5F9 2008-10-06
uid                  vijay

But I am not sure why GPG can not see it during decryption. Besides the key
that I got was generated using PGP CL.

Thanks
guru


David Shaw wrote:
> 
> On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Guru_i wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Im using GPG CL 1.4.9.
>> case is -
>> 1)somebody (trusted) is generating key pair on my behalf(as proxy).  
>> But he
>> is sending me only my secret key and NOT public key.
>> 2) I was able to import the secret key in gpg keyring using
>> --allow-secret-key-import command
>> 3) But when I try to decrypt the file (which was encrypted using my  
>> public
>> key its not with me though) I get error message such as
>>
>> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available. Though I know I have
>> secret key with me.
> 
> There is a lot that doesn't follow here.  The --allow-secret-key- 
> import command is a no-op in version 1.4.9, so if you had to use it to  
> import your key, then you're not using 1.4.9.
> 
> Also, if you were using 1.4.9, when you imported your secret key, it  
> would automatically create a public key for you.  This is built in,  
> and is on by default.
> 
> Finally, that error message means that your secret key was not, in  
> fact, imported.  It says nothing about your public key.
> 
> Given all of that, I suspect you didn't import your secret key after  
> all.
> 
> To import a secret key, do:
>     gpg --import (the secret key file)
> 
> David
> 
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