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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: Wokker on August 12, 2012, 08:49 pm
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Whenever I paste someone's public PGP key onto my clipboard in GPA, and chose to decrypt, I run into the same error everytime. The exact message is: "The GPGME library returned an unexpected error. The error was: General Error. This probably a bug in GPA. GPA will now try to recover from this error." At that point i have to close out the error message, and nothing else happens, no decryption.
I can decrypt messages that I myself have encrypted no problem, ie., write random text onto the clipboard, encrypt with my key, and decrypt. I've searched the forums and it appears a few other people had the same problem, but never found an answer.
I'd appreciate any help.
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You're not supposed to decrypt someone's key, you're supposed to import their key. Put a public key into NOTEPAD don't use wordpad, save the file. Then import that file you should find yourself with a new public key in your keychain.
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Yeah that was exactly the problem. I guess my understanding of how it worked was a little off. Kind of feel like an idiot. Thanks for the help Cozmo!