[Enigmail] secret key needed?
Christopher M. Logan
chrismikall at gmail.com
Thu Jul 5 20:20:20 PDT 2007
Seems like the different IDs isn't the problem, i just think that e-mail
from this one sender is the problem. I get e-mails from other people
and i can decrypt.
i'm using GPG 1.4.7
and the sender is using GPG 1.4.6. Is there an incompatibility?
Christopher M. Logan wrote:
> i also want to mention that i only get this problem with this one
> sender. normally the ID's listed are ones that i see in my Key
> Management window. But in this case i don't.
>
> Christopher M. Logan wrote:
>> i received an e-mail from a friend, indicated by (from) and he sent this
>> same e-mail to 3 others. So the to: field has my name plus 3 others
>> total 4 recipients.
>> indicated by (to1, to2, to3, to4). only to3 and to4 where explicitly
>> mentioned in the log below:
>>
>> I'm getting the error: decryption failed: secret key not available
>>
>> Why is it stating that i need a secret key? Who's secret key is not
>> available?
>>
>>
>> enigmail> C:\Program Files\GNU\GnuPG\gpg.exe --charset utf8 --batch
>> --no-tty --
>> status-fd 2 -d --passphrase-fd 0 --no-use-agent
>> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID DFFF3B09, created 2007-05-09
>> "from <removed>"
>> gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID FA8BBCCA
>> gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID 5EAE6877
>> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID E036B63B, created 2007-03-15
>> "to3 <removed>"
>> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG-E key, ID EB690C8B, created 2007-05-07
>> "to4 <removed>"
>> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
>> enigmail.js: Enigmail.decryptMessageEnd: Error in command execution
>>
>> -Christopher
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