Decrypt an encrypted mail with detached signature?!?

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Fri Jul 25 17:02:02 2003


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On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 04:17:41PM +0200, Holger Sesterhenn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have received a mail which is encrypted by a CryptEx OpenPGP client.
> 
> Using 'gpg --decrypt mail.asc' I see this output:
> ---------------------------
> user@compi:~/tmp/> gpg --status-fd 2 --decrypt mail.asc
> [GNUPG:] ENC_TO 1111111111111111 16 0
> [GNUPG:] GOOD_PASSPHRASE
> [GNUPG:] ENC_TO 2222222222222222 16 0
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 11111111, created 2011-11-11
>       "user...">"
> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 22222222, created 2003-05-07
>       "Holger.Sesterhenn@aachen.utimaco.de
> <Holger.Sesterhenn@aachen.utimaco.de>"
> [GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION
> Testmessage signed and encrypted with PGP
> Detached signature.
> Please enter name of data file:
> ----------------------------
> This mail is encrypted to me and the senders key (11111). The text of the
> mail is just "Testmessage signed and encrypted with PGP"

Two questions:

1) What version of GnuPG are you using?

2) Can you arrange to send me (key 99242560) such a message?

> PGPDUMP does not help because it as an encrypted mail :)

Try adding --list-packets to your GnuPG command line when you try to
decrypt.

David
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