"skipped: Unusable public key"

[Werner Koch]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:52, Ayoub Misherghi said:

> ayoub at vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg -r sentry -e textfile
>
> gpg: sentry: skipped: Unusable public key
> gpg: textfile: encryption failed: Unusable public key

There is no key with a user id "sentry" which has a key capable of
encryption ([E]).  I agree that the diagnostic could be better.


Shalom-Salam,

   Werner

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