decryption failed: Bad session key

[Frank Hrebabetzky]

Hi there,

I had a bad timing with my post, so just as a reminder for those who 
were absorbed by the holidays. Any hint?

Regards,
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On 1/3/19 3:25 PM, Frank Hrebabetzky wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have 2 encrypted files on my PC, let's call them A and B. Every now 
> and then, they are decrypted, edited and encrypted again with the -c 
> option. This has been working very well for decades, surviving several 
> changes of PCs and Linux flavours. The problem arose after my update 
> from    Linux Mint 17 (Ubuntu 14)
> to    Linux Mint 19 (Ubuntu 18)
> 
> Since then, A wasn't re-encrypted, and I can decrypt it as before. B 
> however was re-encrypted, and now I cannot decrypt it anymore. Each 
> attempt is responded with
> 
> gpg: AES256 encrypted data
> gpg: encrypted with 1 passphrase
> gpg: decryption failed: Bad session key
> 
> Regards,