<div dir="auto">Did you encrypt to yourself as well as to the pause key for some reason? Are you a pause admin? It sounds like you encrypted to both yourself and <a href="mailto:pause@pause.perl.org">pause@pause.perl.org</a> for some reason. If that's the case and you cannot find your private key, you could maybe ask a pause admin to decrypt and re-encrypt to a key that you own, sending you back the encrypted file. But you'd need to trust the pause admin with your passwords. I probably know one that I would trust with this task, but it would put a bit of liability risk on them as well...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 15:00 Marek Stepanek <<a href="mailto:mstep@podiuminternational.org">mstep@podiuminternational.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hello all,<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>After use I remove the pw.txt file immediately with my shell. All what is left is the file pw.txt.gpg. </div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div><div>gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you mean ...</div><div>gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG key, ID 1F1EF0849B5C6D50, created 2019-06-30</div><div> "PAUSE Batch Signing Key 2021 <<a href="mailto:pause@pause.perl.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pause@pause.perl.org</a>>"</div><div>gpg: decryption failed: No secret key</div></div><div><br></div><div>I would be *VERY* grateful for any help in:</div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>2. If the file is mistakenly encrypted with wrong headers from <a href="http://perl.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">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><br></div><div>3. As a last resort: is the private key of <a href="mailto:pause@pause.perl.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">pause@pause.perl.org</a> still in use? Would it possible to … ok ok private key … ok ok not possible … I understand. </div><div><br></div><div>Some ideas? Thank you for your insight</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Marek Stepanek</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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