GPG encrypting and decrypting files

[Steve Butler]

Did you copy the keyring or use the appropriate export/import commands?

On the recipient machine, do the following:

  gpg --list-secret-keys

See if your secret key is listed there.  Do the same on the sending machine.
I'm convinced that the two lists will be different.

You may need to:

1.  Use  --export-secret-keys on the one box to
2.  Use  --import on the other box of the secret keys exported in #1
3.  (If older GnuPG) use --allow-secret-key-import when doing #2.

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Gardner [mailto:cgardner at adismri.com]
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 11:44 AM

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 06:32, Neil Williams wrote:
> Linux / windows machines?

Both machines are running Linux.  The machine encrypting the files is
running Red Hat 8 and the decrypting machine is on SuSE 9.

I seem to have gotten beyond this problem, and have come across a new
one.  When I go to decrypt the file, I get a message saying : 

gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID 9012F1E4
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available

When I "gpg --list-keys", the keys are identical on both the encrypting
and decrypting machines.  Is there something that I'm missing somewhere?


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