[Gpg4win-users-en] Error when decrypting a file with kleopatra

[Fabian Nick]

Andre,

trying to decrypt the file gives me the following error message on my linux command lone (I get the message in german however this is what I would suppose the english equivalent would look like):

gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID ****
gpg: encryption failed: no secret key.

So this looks fine to me, too.
I think there really has been either a transmission error or he is trying to encrypt the wrong file.
However we already sent him the file twice and asked for the MD5 sum yesterday. We are waiting for a response on that at the moment.

Thanks, I'll keep you posted.

Regards,
Fabian

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andre Heinecke" <aheinecke at intevation.de>
> To: gpg4win-users-en at wald.intevation.org
> Cc: "Fabian Nick" <fabian.nick at scai.fraunhofer.de>, "Bernhard Reiter" <bernhard at intevation.de>
> Sent: Wednesday, 19 February, 2014 10:30:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Gpg4win-users-en] Error when decrypting a file with kleopatra
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday 19 February 2014 10:13:08 Fabian Nick wrote:
> > Bernhard,
> >
> > thanks for the tip!
> > The image can be found here: http://postimg.org/image/891i5a48n/
> 
> This is sadly a bad error message that also occurs in the case when
> you just
> try to decrypt something that is not a gpg message. Your customer is
> probably
> trying to decrypt the wrong file. (A file that is not encrypted)
> 
> This error message happens when gpg on the command line would tell
> you:
> gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
> gpg: decrypt_message failed: Unknown system error
> 
> You could let him create a checksum over the file to verify that it
> is the
> same. GpgEX offers that option. So he can right click and create a
> checksum
> over the file and then right click the same file to decrypt it. You
> then can
> compare those checksums to see if he really tries to decrypt the file
> you've
> sent him.
> 
> >
> > Regarding your suggestions:
> >
> > a) I've already opened the public key file he sent us and it looks
> > ok.
> > Opening the encrypted file we sent back to him just reveals some
> > binary
> > nonsense  b) I cannot decrypt the file since I don't have his
> > private
> > key... ;-)
> 
> With regards to b) You can try to decrypt it. It should show you "no
> secret
> key" but this whould show you at least that it is a valid OpenPGP
> message.
> (In which case the error should be different)
> 
> Regards,
> Andre
> 
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