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Sender A:</div>
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<span>To recapitulate : sender A uses gpgsm with 2 recipients:</span></div>
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<span>gpgsm --recipient <A own cert id> --recipient <B cert id> --encrypt file.txt > encryptedfile.gpg</span></div>
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<span>Receiver B:</span></div>
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<span>The receiving end B has his own correct secret key available but not the secret key from B and gets an error </span>when decrypting the file:</div>
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<span>gpgsm: DBG: recp 0 - issuer: 'CN=MYREALM CA,DC=REALM' gpgsm: DBG: recp 0 - serial: <serial number of the sender certificate> gpgsm: error decrypting session key: No secret key gpgsm: decrypting session key failed: No secret key
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</span><span>gpgsm: DBG: recp 1 - issuer: 'CN=MYREALM CA,DC=REALM' gpgsm: DBG: recp 1 - serial: <serial number of the receiver certificate>
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<span>So the question is: </span></div>
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<li><span>is B able to decrypt the file if he has not the secret key from A </span></li><li><span>should he be able to do this even when not having A's secret key</span></li><li><span>am I missing something</span></li></ol>
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