GPG W32 1.0.6-2 - PRIVATE KEY IMPORT ISSUE

[Werner Koch]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 17:29, duemme at gmail.com said:

> I downloaded GPG W32 1.0.6-2 on a Windows machine.

This is a 11 years old version og GnuPG!  You should not use it at all.
The cuirrent version is 1.4.12 and a simple installer is available at

  ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/gnupg-w32cli-1.4.12.exe

> import:
> gpg --allow-secret-key-import "secdretkey.txt"

--allow-secret-ket-import is only an option but not a command.  Thus gpg
will try to decrypt what is in secdretkey.txt - which is not possible -
it will thus only show you the content of the file.

Use

  gpg --allow-secret-key-import --import "secdretkey.txt"

but please update to a modern and supported version first (then you
don't need the --allow-secret-key-import anymore).


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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