gpg: decrypt_message failed: Unknown system error

[Ayoub Misherghi]

Thanks. I wish the error message did not say system error when it was 
human error.


On 7/16/2020 3:07 AM, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> 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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