gpg problem while decrypting

[Thomas Sjögren]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 05:21:03PM +0530, Deepak Kolhar wrote:
>  I'm getting following error  under unix environment when i try to decrypt a
> file  from another user .
> 'gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available'
> 
> I've generated a key from a user   'UserA' for example. It's working fine
> there.
> But when i try to decrypt a file (which is encrypted from user a ) from a
> user 'User-BCD'. it gives above error.
> Both the user are on the same server.
> 
> The exact message is
> gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID 3E07473B
> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> 
> What may be the reasons. and how this problem can be soved.

User-BCD has encrypted the document to him/herself? If you want A to be
able to read the message BCD has to encrypt the document to A.
BCD has to run
gpg -es -r A document.doc

/Thomas
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