gpg encryption failed no public key

nagaram.c nagaram.c at symphony.cc
Fri Mar 12 07:11:51 CET 2010


Thanks for the response, the command

>gpg --recepient testuserID --encrypt abc.txt 

I used has double dashes still I gives the same error.
 
I think I am using the default keyring as I didn't change its location 

Thanks,
Nag
-----Original Message-----
From: gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-bounces at gnupg.org]
On Behalf Of Grant Olson
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:24 PM
To: gnupg-users at gnupg.org
Subject: Re: gpg encryption failed no public key

On 3/11/2010 7:52 AM, nagaram.c wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I am new to gpg command line utility for file encryption/decryption. I
> have installed gpg4win v 2.0.2 & trying to encrypt a file with a key
> that I imported which is also listing while typing list-keys command
> 
>  
> 
> The issue is that I am getting encryption failed no public key while
> typing in the below command
> 
>>gpg -recipient testUserID -encrypt abc.txt
> 
>  
> 
> In one of the posts I found that this is due to not specifying keyring
> location with using -keyring option
> 
>  
> 
> But while I used below command with specifying keyring as below
> 
>  
> 
>>gpg -recipient testIUserID -keyring C:/Documents &
> Settings/username/Application Data/gnupg/pubring.gpg -encrypt abc.txt
> 
>  
> 
> I am getting below error
> 
>  
> 
> gpg: keyblock resource 'C:/Documents & Settings/username/Application
> Data/gnupg/C:/Documents' no such file or directory
> 
> usage: gpg [options] [filename]
> 
>  

The first command isn't working because you need to double-dash the
options.  "--recipient" and "--encrypt".

You really shouldn't need the -keyring option if you're using your
default keyring.  But for the option to work, you would need quotes
around the filename since it has spaces in it.





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