<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Perhaps somebody out there could be of some help. I use since 10 years now GnuPG in my Shell to encrypt my Passwords. I only open this file, from time to time to look up some pws which I need for banking, crypto or to check, which of my many mails I used on which webpage. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">After use I remove the pw.txt file immediately with my shell. All what is left is the file pw.txt.gpg. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Now after such a long time, something strange happened: this file is apparently encrypted with a foreign private key, which I never have had: </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you mean ...</div><div class="">gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG key, ID 1F1EF0849B5C6D50, created 2019-06-30</div><div class=""> "PAUSE Batch Signing Key 2021 <<a href="mailto:pause@pause.perl.org" class="">pause@pause.perl.org</a>>"</div><div class="">gpg: decryption failed: No secret key</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would be *VERY* grateful for any help in:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">1. Recover the original file pw.tx. This file I remove in my shell and for me, it seems impossible to recover this file. Right? And I am sure: I have even a SSD on my 2018 MB Pro. Which makes it even much more improbable, to recover the decrypted pw-file.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. If the file is mistakenly encrypted with wrong headers from <a href="http://perl.org" class="">perl.org</a>, perhaps it would be possible to change the headers to my private gpg key? I see in the pw.txt.gpg file <85> … <8c> … <91> which could be headers. If I replace some of them with a backup - two month old from a still working bu_pw.txt.pgg file? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. As a last resort: is the private key of <a href="mailto:pause@pause.perl.org" class="">pause@pause.perl.org</a> still in use? Would it possible to … ok ok private key … ok ok not possible … I understand. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some ideas? Thank you for your insight</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Marek Stepanek</div></body></html>