decryption failed: secret key not available

Jean-David Beyer jeandavid8 at verizon.net
Wed Jul 21 22:43:58 CEST 2010


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Rahul R wrote:
> But how to generate a secret key in command mode... i have the public
> key with me and imported it.. but still not able to decrypt...
> 
My guess is that your best bet is to generate a new key-pair and send
the public key to a key-server. Then notify whoever sent you the
original message of the problem and to send it again with the new key.
You might wish to revoke the old key-pair if you have a revocation
certificate on your machine.

I do not know how you lost your secret key.

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