gpg: decrypt_message failed: Unknown system error

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Mittwoch, 15. Juli 2020 21:32:29 CEST Ayoub Misherghi via Gnupg-users 
wrote:
> ayoub at vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg -r develop1 -e textfile
> 
> ayoub at vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ ls
> textfile  textfile.gpg
> 
> ayoub at vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg -u develop1 -o textfile.dcr -d textfile
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: decrypt_message failed: Unknown system error

You are trying to decrypt the original file (textfile) instead of the 
encrypted file (textfile.gpg).

Regards,
Ingo
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