gpg: no secret key available for decryption

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Caleb Land wrote:

> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "Caleb Land (RedHatDude) <bokonon@rochester.rr.com>"
> 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 0E85FED7, created 2000-10-18 (main key ID 29402314)

That is your key of course ...

> gpg: encrypted with 3072-bit ELG-E key, ID AA4D2A27, created 2000-10-16
>       "Brian R. Boyce <Veritas@rochester.rr.com>"

And that is another recipient's key. Probably the one of the owner,
so that he can archive the message.

> gpg: no secret key for decryption available

That is indeed a bit confusing.  It should say that there is no
secret key for Brian Boyce.

I'll see whether I can change this behaviour and only list other
keys without checking whether we have a secret key.


ciao,

  Werner
  
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