Decryption failed: No secret key found (Please help !)

Ben McGinnes ben at adversary.org
Thu Aug 18 11:10:22 CEST 2016


On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 06:22:39AM +0000, Hariharan Shweta wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> 
> 
> We have setup the entire GnuPG software along with the keys in our
> Linux server. We are able to encrypt our message and send it to our
> vendor. even our vendor is able to decrypt it at their end. But we
> are not able to decrypt the message sent by the vendor to us.
[SNIP]
>         mdc_method: 2
> 
> gpg: encrypted with ELG key, ID 55572F4B
> 
> gpg: encrypted with ELG key, ID 31743B64
> 
> gpg: decryption failed: No secret key

It means they have not encrypted the message to your public key.  Have
you sent it to them?  Is 0x31743B64 your key?  That one isn't on the
keyservers, whereas both the ADP ones are.


Regards,
Ben

P.S.  You know this is a public mailing list, right?
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