Help: Deleting a secret key without public key

[Andreas Siegert]

Hi guys,

could anyone please tell me the magic invocation to get rid of a secret key
that has no public key?

thx
afx


Quoting Andreas Siegert (afxml@atsec.com) on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 03:38:13PM +0100:
> I see the following message ever since I imported some old RSA keys of mine
> from pgp 2.x:
> 
> gpg: key E22EAB4D: secret key without public key - skipped
> 
> every time I encryt something.
> 
> When I do a gpg --list-secret-keys I see the old key.
> When I use  gpg --delete-secret-key E22EAB4D then I get the message 
> gpg: key E22EAB4D: secret key without public key - skipped
> gpg: E22EAB4D: user not found
> gpg: E22EAB4D: delete key failed: secret key not available
> 
> Is there a flag to fix this?
> gpg --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6
> ...
> Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, RIJNDAEL, RIJNDAEL192, RIJNDAEL256,
> TWOFISH
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160

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