[Enigmail] Error

[Charly Avital]

Dogssup wrote the following on 3/10/08 3:06 PM:
> Thanks Phil for helping me through this! When I clicked decrypt for your
> message I entered my passphrase but I got the following message. I
> noticed on line 5 it says ID D332A952 which does *not* match the key ID
> in my OpenPGP key management window. Maybe because when learning to set
> this up I messed up and created 2-3 key pairs? I deleted them all except
> for the latest creation.
> -DGP
> 
> Error - secret key needed to decrypt message
> 
> gpg command line and output:
> /usr/local/bin/gpg --charset utf8  --batch --no-tty --status-fd 2 -d
> --passphrase-fd 0 --no-use-agent
> gpg: encrypted with ELG-E key, ID D663C905
> gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit ELG-E key, ID D332A952, created 2008-03-10
>       "Dogssup <dogssup at gmail.com>"
> gpg: public key decryption failed: bad passphrase
> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
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The key block you included in your previous e-mail was:

pub  1024D/26A5F9F3  created: 2008-03-10  expires: 2013-03-09  usage: SCA
                     trust: unknown       validity: unknown
sub  4096g/D332A952  created: 2008-03-10  expires: 2013-03-09  usage: E
[ unknown] (1). Dogssup <dogssup at gmail.com>


The primary public key is 26A5F9F3, usage SCA, meaning, if I am not
wrong, Sign Certify Authenticate
subkey D332A952 (usage: E = encryption) was used to encrypt the e-mail
to you.

This is correct, and this is how it works: the encryption subkey is used
to encrypt to the recipient. This is why the key ID in line 5, D332A952
(that's the encryption subkey ID) does not match the key ID in your
OpenPGP Key Management window 26A5F9F3. But if you choose from the View
menu "Key Properties", you will get a sheet where the above subkey is
listed.

The error message you got indicates that you typed a wrong passphrase.
Do you know/remember, for certain, the passphrase you used when you
generated key 26A5F9F3?

Charly