decryption failed: secret key not available

[Werner Koch]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:04:50 -0400, Jacques Dejean said:

> # echo '$PGPPASS' | gpg -v -v --passphrase-fd 0 --no-default-keyring -r

You know that the passphrase is available to all users on most OSes?
Better don't use a passphrase at all.


> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 123ABC4D, created 2001-09-11
>       "Jacques Victor Dejean <jacdej@aent.com>"
> gpg: public key decryption failed: bad passphrase

May it be that your passphrase has a character with the high bit set and
that the codepages used on Windows and HP are different?


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