Encrypting when secret keyring is not available

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:23:52 -0800 (PST), D Borkovic said:

> Sometimes I want to encrypt a message when my memory stick is
> not available. The public keyring is available. However, Gnupg
> will NOT encrypt a message when a secret keyring is not available.

No problem here:

$ ls -la
total 64
dr-xr-xr-x  2 wk wk  4096 Mar 30 17:55 .
drwxr-xr-x  9 wk wk  4096 Mar 30 17:49 ..
-rw-------  1 wk wk 47077 Mar 30 17:50 pubring.gpg
-rw-------  1 wk wk   600 Mar 30 17:55 random_seed
-rw-------  1 wk wk  1200 Mar 30 17:55 trustdb.gpg
$ gpg --homedir . -eavr wk at gnupg.org --always-trust --lock-never </etc/motd
gpg: WARNING: unsafe permissions on homedir `.'
gpg: error creating keyring `./secring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource `./secring.gpg': file open error
gpg: using subkey B604F148 instead of primary key 5B0358A2
gpg: No trust check due to `--trust-model always' option
gpg: reading from `[stdin]'
gpg: writing to stdout
gpg: RSA/TWOFISH encrypted for: "B604F148 Werner Koch <wk at gnupg.org>"
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Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux)

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Make sure that you did not requested signing and encryption.  A secret
key is required for signing.



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner