gpg: no secret key available for decryption

[Stefan H. Holek]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Caleb Land wrote:

> ---output---
> gpg: encrypted with 3072-bit ELG-E key, ID AA4D2A27, created 2000-10-16
>       "Brian R. Boyce <Veritas@rochester.rr.com>"
> gpg: no secret key for decryption available
> ---/output---
> 
> Whenever I try to decrypt something that is encrypted with PGP 6.8.X I
> get the message "gpg: no secret key for decryption available"  It
> decrypts fine, but I don't know what the message means.  Is it
> something that I should worry about?

This has nothing to do with PGP 6.8.5 other than IIRC it defaults to
"encrypt to self". The message means that the above file is not only
encrypted to you, but also to Veritas, and, for obvious reasons, you do
not have Veritas' secret key in your keyring. This is good, no reason to
worry.

HTH
Stefan

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