gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

John W. Moore III jmoore3rd at bellsouth.net
Sat May 17 00:32:35 CEST 2008


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Joe Demeny wrote:

> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
> 
> I'm wondering what the error "No secret key" means? Am I trying to decrypt the 
> message with the wrong key? Or have I broken my gpg setup?
> 

Nothing is 'broken' but what GPG is telling You is that it wasn't
encrypted to You. [or, at least to Your Key]

Unless Your Key was specified to be encrypted to then You do not have
the Secret Key necessary to decrypt.  That's all.

JOHN ;)
Timestamp: Friday 16 May 2008, 18:32  --400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
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