decryption failed: secret key not available

[Joke de Buhr]

On Wednesday 21 July 2010 17:22:28 Rahul R wrote:
> Hi All,,
> 
> When I try to decrypt a file which was encrypted with my key by a vendor, I
> am getting an error as below.
> 
> -----------------------
> 
> gpg --yes --output 123.txt.out --decrypt 123.txt.out.pgp
> gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID 424E35F0, created 2010-05-11
>       "TEST_ENV (For testing new test env) <testenv_gpg at ironmountain.com>"
> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on how to troubleshoot this?

Obviously you don't have the secret key to key 424E35F0. Are you sure it's 
your key. Your secret keys are listed by running
    gpg -K
Check if the IDs match.
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