Unusable key

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On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Babkin, Alexander \(GE Consumer Finance, consultant\) 
wrote:

> I have imported public key and checked the finger print. The key import 
> and fingerprint show no problems. Using edit-key I set the trust to u/u. 
> But when I try to encrypt file I get the following:
>
> xtrace line 11: gpg --quiet --output /loyalty/GEMMA/out/test.csv.gpg 
> --encrypt --recipient jlennan at gemmacom.com /loyalty/GEMMA/out/test.csv 
> gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory! gpg: please see 
> http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information gpg: 
> jlennan at gemmacom.com: skipped: unusable public key gpg: 
> /loyalty/GEMMA/out/test.csv: encryption failed: unusable public key 
> xtrace line 11: exit
>
> I would appreciate any help in solving this problem.
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does the key have an encryption subkey? is the (sub)key expired or 
revoked?

what happens if you try "--encrypt-to" instead of "--encrypt"?


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