gpg: signing failed: Bad secret key

Leo Coogan leocoogan at mailfence.com
Tue Jan 23 18:38:37 CET 2024


This is Nixos.

I don't believe I have two binaries of gpg.

My Nixos config contains:

```nix

         programs.gnupg.agent = {
                 enable = true;
                 enableSSHSupport = true;
         };
```

and the package pinentry-gnome is installed.

I did `which` gpg and gpg2, and gpg2 was a symlink to gpg. So I don't 
believe I have another binary of gpg.


```

 > gpg -K --with-subkey-fingerprint --with-keygrip  \
          --list-options show-pref-verbose  \
          C0156FFBE02B4E03F7792EB53D7F617CDE5C9A9B 2>&1| wl-copy

gpg: enabled compatibility flags:
gpg: using pgp trust model
sec#  ed25519 2023-03-03 [SC] [expires: 2025-03-02]
       C0156FFBE02B4E03F7792EB53D7F617CDE5C9A9B
       Keygrip = 38953FFD2BD558606473A90A6EDD5B26F03FA3CB
uid           [ultimate] Leo Coogan (Personal) 
<leocoogan at existential.beauty>
               Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, 3DES
               AEAD: OCB
               Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1
               Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
               Features: MDC, AEAD, Keyserver no-modify
uid           [ultimate] Leo Coogan (Personal GPG key) 
<leocoogan at mailfence.com>
               Cipher: AES256, AES192, AES, 3DES
               AEAD: OCB
               Digest: SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1
               Compression: ZLIB, BZIP2, ZIP, Uncompressed
               Features: MDC, AEAD, Keyserver no-modify
ssb   cv25519 2023-03-03 [E] [expires: 2025-03-02]
       143454E3276F11C51D01B35363D14EA6FDB00D9F
       Keygrip = 02EE4AA6089E9DEF7792F548C01FFD8C05F1EC21

```

On 1/22/24 02:48, Werner Koch wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> [GNUPG:] KEY_CONSIDERED C0156FFBE02B4E03F7792EB53D7F617CDE5C9A9B 2
>> gpg: writing to stdout
>> [GNUPG:] BEGIN_SIGNING H10
>> gpg: signing failed: Bad secret key
> Plase run
>
>    gpg -K --with-subkey-fingerprint --with-keygrip  \
>           --list-options show-pref-verbose  \
>           C0156FFBE02B4E03F7792EB53D7F617CDE5C9A9B
>
>
> Is there a second gpg binary on your system?
>
> Is that Debian?
>
>
> Salam-Shalom,
>
>     Werner
>
>



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