decrypt and secret key location

[Andrew Berg]

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Bruno Costacurta wrote:
> I received an email from you with an ecrypted message. When I tried
> to decrypt :
>
> gpg -v -v --decrypt test01.asc gpg: armor: BEGIN PGP MESSAGE gpg:
> armor header: Charset: UTF-8 gpg: armor header: Version: GnuPG
> v1.4.7 (MingW32) gpg: armor header: Comment: Using GnuPG with
> Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org :pubkey enc packet: version 3,
> algo 16, keyid 42531C9A0CC897B5 data: [2048 bits] data: [2047 bits]
>  gpg: public key is 0CC897B5 :pubkey enc packet: version 3, algo 1,
> keyid BBC3C45BBBC5C9CF data: [2046 bits] gpg: public key is
> BBC5C9CF :encrypted data packet: length: unknown mdc_method: 2 gpg:
> using subkey BBC5C9CF instead of primary key 60A78FCB gpg:
> encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID BBC5C9CF, created 2007-04-20
> "Andrew Berg <bahamut at digital-signal.net>" gpg: using subkey
> 0CC897B5 instead of primary key 2E604D51 gpg: encrypted with
> 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID 0CC897B5, created 2006-06-11 "Bruno
> Costacurta <bruno at costacurta.org>" gpg: decryption failed: secret
> key not available
>
>
> So I'm still having the problem about my secret key not
> available...
Looks like a subkey problem. I used the public key I got from a
keyserver, which verifies that signed message.
The lines that say it's using a subkey instead of the primary key seem
to be the problem. Unfortunately, I know almost nothing about subkeys.
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