[Fwd: Re: decrypt and secret key location]

[Andrew Berg]

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Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> Hello, I received an encrypted file called 'test.asc' (recipient is
> correct, hereafter it is truncated) but trying to decrypt it I have
> following error :
>
> gpg --decrypt test.asc gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID
> 0CC897B5, created 2006-06-11 "Bruno Costacurta
> <bruno at __nospam_here__org>" gpg: decryption failed: secret key not
> available
>
> Is it only key location? If so, how / where can I indicate my
> private key location ? If not, what type of problem ?
Your secret key should be in ~./gnupg/secring.gpg. If you ran GPG from
the command line and don't have homedir explicitly overwritten, that's
where it is created when you generate a new key pair.

If you run gpg --help, what does it say is the home directory?
If you run gpg -K, are any keys listed?
If you run gpg --list-keys, is your public key listed?



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