can not encrypt (but decrypt) dues to missing pub key

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Mittwoch, April 01, 2020 a las 06:59:17 +0200, Ingo Klöcker escribió:

> On Mittwoch, 1. April 2020 17:30:29 CEST Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > I encounter in my server the following situation: I can decrypt files
> > but not encrypting any file:
> > 
> > $ gpg2 --version
> 
> Here you are using gpg2.
> 
> > 
> > $ gpg -d sybase.gpg
> 
> Now you are using gpg.

Sorry for this confusion. gpg is just a symlink to gpg2:

$ which gpg
/usr/local/bin/gpg
$ which gpg2
/usr/local/bin/gpg2

$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/gpg /usr/local/bin/gpg2
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       4 27 mar.   2017 /usr/local/bin/gpg -> gpg2
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  903648  5 mar.   2017 /usr/local/bin/gpg2

> > $ gpg2 -r guru at unixarea.de -ea test
> 
> Here you are using gpg2 again. My guess is that the second call uses gpg 1.x 
> and a different home (including a different key ring).
> 
> > It seems that there is the file pubring.gpg missing:
> 
> Of course, because pubring.gpg is the public key container of gpg <2.

Ok, this explains its absence.

> 
> > $ ls -ltr /home/guru/.gnupg-v2.1.19
> > total 36
> > -rw-------  1 guru  wheel    32 11 mar.   2018 pubring.kbx~
> > -rw-r--r--  1 guru  wheel  1396 11 mar.   2018 pubring.kbx
> 
> pubring.kbx holds the public keys of gpg2.

Ok, but why encryption does not work? As you see the file pubring.kbx is
not changed since it was created.

	matthias


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