decryption failed

[Anthony E. Greene]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 06:15:05AM +0200, HEINKEL,HELMUT (Non-HP-Germany,ex1) wrote:
>I tried to decrypt a file with the command:
>gpg --decrypt  gpg.txt
>
>I got a message:
>
>gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
>gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 6A7E44E2, created 2001-12-03
>     "HP homeworkers <hp.homeworkers@equant.com>"
>gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>The file was encrypted on Windows, in the file I found:
>Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>
>Is this a problem of IDEA?

It probably means just what it says; that you don't have the required
secret key (0x6A7E44E2).

Tony
- -- 
Anthony E. Greene <mailto:Anthony%20E.%20Greene%20%3Cagreene@pobox.com%3E>
OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D
AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05         HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/>
Linux. The choice of a GNU generation <http://www.linux.org/>

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Anthony E. Greene <agreene@pobox.com> 0x6C94239D

iD8DBQE8vQjvpCpg3WyUI50RAlhdAJ9pi6VweEYuOvPvZ51TLGeHIIy1YgCeKN5K
TsqQyF93FWRmXyVGlKFwLkM=
=YbTr
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----