gpg2 says "No Secret Key", gpg1.x says there is

[Charly Avital]

gpg2 requires gpg-agent to be available (installed and configured).
When it is not, the error warning is usually "...secret key not  
available".

Hope this helps
Charly


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On May 8, 2010, at 22:14, Andreas Mattheiss <please.post at publicly.invalid 
 > wrote:

> Hello,
>
> for some time gpg2 from subversion has been giving me grief, claiming
> there was no secret key, while gpg1.xxx says there is:
>
> highscreen [21:08] [/raidtest/CVS/gnupg] <# 44> g10/gpg2 --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 2.1.0-svn5320
> libgcrypt 1.5.0-svn1429
> Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html 
> >
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Home: ~/.gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Pubkey: RSA, ELG, DSA
> Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,  
> CAMELLIA128,
>        CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
> Compression: Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
>
>
> highscreen [21:09] [/raidtest/CVS/gnupg] <# 46> g10/gpg2 <  
> ~/.cshrc.asc
> gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG key, ID D8F9277B, created 2001-07-15
>      "Andreas Mattheiss <a........>"
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
>
>
> But gpg1.xxx, also from svn, says:
>
> highscreen [21:11] [/raidtest/CVS/gnupg] <# 50> gpg --version
> gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.11-svn5308
> Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html 
> >
> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
>
> Home: ~/.gnupg
> Supported algorithms:
> Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA
> Cipher: 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, AES, AES192, AES256, TWOFISH,  
> CAMELLIA128,
>        CAMELLIA192, CAMELLIA256
> Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, SHA224
> Compression: highscreen [21:11] [/raidtest/CVS/gnupg] <# 51> gpg <  
> ~/.cshrc.asc
>
> You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for
> user: "Andreas Mattheiss <a.............>"
> 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID D8F9277B, created 2001-07-15 (main key ID  
> 10F7D537)
>
> Uncompressed, ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2
>
>
> This has been going on for about half a year now. libassuen &  
> friends are
> all from svn.
>
> Any suggestions/workarounds/explanations are welcome.
>
> Andreas
>
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