Have key ID, but can't decrypt.

[Timo Schulz]

On Thu Oct 24 2002; 17:21, Jason Price wrote:

> > gpg --decrypt egr.1.pgp
> gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
> gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
> gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG-E key, ID 34B2393A, created 2002-08-24
>       "Edward Graham V <egraham@gttx.org>"
> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG-E key, ID 34B2393A, created 2002-08-24
>       "Edward Graham V <egraham@gttx.org>"
> gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG-E key, ID 34B2393A, created 2002-08-24
>       "Edward Graham V <egraham@gttx.org>"
> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> 
> That "keyid" is in my key ring.  Why can't I decrypt?

Yes, it's in your keyring but just the public part of it.
The message doesn't seem to be encrypted with 2 keys (yours and his key) 
but just with the key 0x34B2393A.


        Timo