urgent: import public PGP Key which is my secret Key

Laurent Jumet laurent.jumet at skynet.be
Wed Oct 20 13:55:51 CEST 2010


Hello rakia !

rakia ben sassi <rakia.bensassi at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have an encrypted document (with my key) which I should decrypt.
> After the generation of my key (and saving it in my email as .asc file), my
> computer is formated and new reinstalled.
> Now GnuPG find my key as public and I can't use it for decryption!

> This key has 2 IDs; one is for a public key an the other is for the subkey
> which is secret.
> The document which I have is encrypted with the subkey.
> When I try a decryption, I receive: "gpg: secret key not available"

> How can I import my own secret key?

> Do you have a solution for me please? It's very important !!!

> I'm using Ubuntu 10.4 and GnuPG.

    Did you save *both* secret and public keys?
    What command did you use?

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Laurent Jumet
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