[Resend] Assistance with decryption failure, gpg unable to find secret key that actually exists

NIIBE Yutaka gniibe at fsij.org
Thu Aug 18 07:22:21 CEST 2016


On 08/17/2016 11:00 PM, Spoofy32 . wrote:
> --status-file outputs:
> 
> [GNUPG:] ENC_TO XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1 0
> [GNUPG:] GOOD_PASSPHRASE
> [GNUPG:] ERROR pkdecrypt_failed 18
> [GNUPG:] BEGIN_DECRYPTION
> [GNUPG:] DECRYPTION_FAILED
> [GNUPG:] END_DECRYPTION
> 
> Is there a place where error code 18 is defined?
> 

In libgpg-error/doc/errorref.txt, it says:

	18	GPG_ERR_WRONG_SECKEY		Wrong secret key used

In the code of GnuPG, this error occurs when decryption by your
private key is finished to get the secret session key, but the result
of the secret session key is found malformed.

I'm reading gnupg/g10/pubkey-enc.c.
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