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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Dankasaurus on September 26, 2013, 01:09 am
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Just a note before I say anything, I have saved this person's public key in my keyring.
When I paste his message in the blank editor and then press Decrypt, I get a pop-up saying:
"Decryption failed
No secret key
No private key with id 'person I'm messaging' present in keyring."
What's my issue here?
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You cant decrypt with a public key thats to encrypt and send to them, they need to have used your public key to encrypt then you use private key to decrypt
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You cant decrypt with a public key thats to encrypt and send to them, they need to have used your public key to encrypt then you use private key to decrypt
How do I use this private key?
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What? you create a key pair, send the public one to whoever so they can use it to encrypt then you use the private one to decrypt
Would be much use if anyone could save a public key they decrypt msg would it
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What? you create a key pair, send the public one to whoever so they can use it to encrypt then you use the private one to decrypt
Would be much use if anyone could save a public key they decrypt msg would it
That's the thing...it's not prompting me for a private key or anything. It just jumps straight to telling me there isn't one for the person whose message I'm trying to decrypt I guess?
http://s22.postimg.org/bnistvq3l/Capture.png
Have a look see ^^^^
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Did you send them your public key?
Did they use your key to encode the message?
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Did you send them your public key?
Did they use your key to encode the message?
Yeah I posted my public key and then he sent me a long encrypted message that I can't decrypt and the image that I uploaded is what happens when I press Decrypt.
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well if they used your public key to encrypt and you are using the private one of the key pair to decrypt there should be no issue post your public key ill encrypt something and see if you can dewcrypt it
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well if they used your public key to encrypt and you are using the private one of the key pair to decrypt there should be no issue post your public key ill encrypt something and see if you can dewcrypt it
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Holy shit it worked....
Before I replied to your previous one with my key, I just started fresh..cleared everything from GPG4USB and created a new key and everything. Now it works!
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Well it was either the key (doubtful) or the other user (more likely as said no private key) so id say they used their key to encrypt
Either way now you know you can use it its on the others to work out
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Well it was either the key (doubtful) or the other user (more likely as said no private key) so id say they used their key to encrypt
Either way now you know you can use it its on the others to work out
Thanks for your help man, I appreciate it!