Cannot find secret key error

Corrin Lakeland lakeland@cs.otago.ac.nz
Mon Sep 17 07:12:01 2001


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On Mon, 17 Sep 2001 15:18, you wrote:


> This clearly shows that Ben encrypted the message to himself, and not to
> you. Since you don't have the matching private key (Ben's private key) gpg
> tells you it can't find the required key.
>
> Tell Ben to make sure he selects your key as the recipient next time:
>
> gpg -e -a -r lakeland@acm.org message.txt
*embarrased look* Thanks, I was getting really confused there :-) Corrin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7pYWhi5A0ZsG8x8cRAkelAJ46tNPZ9Ix5kuBWStxJL/z2uHXVbwCeLxfz tt6FLBu/7byJNyJjBm/HqWs= =b75r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----