PGPFreeware and GPG

[Andrew McDonald]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:34:53PM -0800, Dale Harris wrote:
> This has likely been answered before, but I couldn't really find anything 
> off hand in the archive.  I was able to import a PGPfreeware 5.5.5 key
> from a friend, and it would appear that I can encrypt stuff using that key.
> However I cannot decrypt it, like I normally would, with my key.
> 
> 
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 5943481D, created 1999-10-10
>      <.. id omitted ..>
> gpg: no secret key for decryption available
> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available

If you've encrypted it with your friend's public key, then obviously
you can't decrypt it, since you don't have his private key. :)

By default, gnupg doesn't automatically encrypt it using your public
key as well. You can get it to do this, e.g. by adding a line
containing "default-key YOURKEYID" to your .gnupg/options file.


Andrew
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