Files encrypted on another system

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Mon Nov 1 11:53:55 CET 2010


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Hello Taka !

Taka Fukuda <fukuda at computer.org> wrote:

>     I created an encrypted file on a Fedora machine, and
>     lost the environment except for the encrypted file
>     itself. (I remember the pass-phrase, though.)
>     I have tried to decrypt the file, but I got
>     fukuda at lark:~% gpg --decrypt  Sync/Diary.gpg
>     gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID CA21E488
>     gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available

>     Are there any ways to recover the file?

    If you don't have the SecretKey any more, there is no way to recover the 
file.

- -- 
Laurent Jumet
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