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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Stridulate on September 27, 2013, 08:55 am

Title: message wont decypt Help!
Post by: Stridulate on September 27, 2013, 08:55 am
Hi all

I have been using gpg/Kleopatra on Tails successfully for months.  I have encypted my address for vendors with their public keys and sent people my public key too for messages and all is good had lots of encrypted messages from people and decypted them all fine, not changed my key recently or anything.

The other day i sent my public key to someone on the forum who wanted to send me a message and when i took the reply i got a yellow error box in Kleopatra with the following text:  "Kleopatra: assertion "prot != UnknownProtocol" failed in void Kleo::Crypto::DecryptVerifyTask::setProtocol(GpgME::Protocol)(../../Kleopatra/crypto/decryptverifytask.cpp:815): Internal error (218103871)"

never had this before, usually stuff just decypts I get this message before it asks for my passphrase.

I have re-sent my public key to the sender and re-generated it from the software in case i got the wrong file. the PGP message looks like any other and starts :

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (MingW32)

hQEMA8nCVlKJAHYXAQ ........etc.


so looks like loads of others.

I am totally baffled and the sender has re-sent the message twice now  :(

any ideas?
Title: Re: message wont decypt Help!
Post by: Rastaman Vibration on September 27, 2013, 09:09 am
What does the end of the messeage look like?
Title: Re: message wont decypt Help!
Post by: Stridulate on September 27, 2013, 11:32 am
What does the end of the messeage look like?

hey Rastaman,

here is the end of the block copied and pasted:

dxp385M4MzZtlGQ/FO9pSdMqreXY9nevGZMxkNbycKkxITesEBf2SJ681awcStwG
WSeheYuk
=ojLU
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

looks like all the others to me but open to suggestions ;)

thanks for replying

Peace

Strid
Title: Re: message wont decypt Help!
Post by: This_is_not_SOCA on September 27, 2013, 01:03 pm
Dude

Try saving the encrypted content as a file with the extension '.pgp' and then decrypting - let me know if it works....
Title: Re: message wont decypt Help!
Post by: Yoda on September 27, 2013, 01:05 pm
I'm betting the sender is doing something wrong.

Maybe they're not encrypting in your key... or maybe they're not including "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----/------END PGP MESSAGE------"



Title: Re: message wont decypt Help!
Post by: Stridulate on September 27, 2013, 10:53 pm
Dude

Try saving the encrypted content as a file with the extension '.pgp' and then decrypting - let me know if it works....

HeyThis!

Thanks this did it fine, you are a complete star!!

+1 to you!

Strid x
Title: Re: message wont decypt Help!
Post by: Stridulate on September 27, 2013, 10:57 pm
Hey all who replied to my problem thanks for taking the time

I fuckin love this community

Strid x
Title: Re: message wont decypt Help!
Post by: This_is_not_SOCA on September 28, 2013, 11:53 am
Dude

Try saving the encrypted content as a file with the extension '.pgp' and then decrypting - let me know if it works....

HeyThis!

Thanks this did it fine, you are a complete star!!

+1 to you!

Strid x

Excellent - happy to hear it worked.

Thanks for the +1, my very first karma point :)