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ERROR decrypt unable to find a PGP decryption key for this message

Open cageyv opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

System Info:

5.4.0-40-generic Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS focal keybase version 5.5.1-20200527202541+39ca0071e5 gpg (GnuPG) 2.2.19 libgcrypt 1.8.5

Application Error:

ERROR decrypt unable to find a PGP decryption key for this message

Additional info:

I add my own PGP key with passphrase with keybase pgp select command I don't get request for type passphrase when I use keybase

How to reproduce:

keybase pgp list

Keybase Key ID:  010196
PGP Fingerprint: 857209
PGP Identities:
   Vladimir Samoylov (cageyv) <[email protected]>

keybase pgp encrypt -m "foobar" > testmessage.txt

cat testmessage.txt

-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Comment: https://keybase.io/download
Version: Keybase Go 5.5.1 (linux)

wcFMA4vYUBIL+GyiARAAXPdge8CeXlhjMne32C8SteJuLz/A4rzajo7hXipE7nIa
BVI+s7tmZCRDU9lTkQutH7FJ1cwI60m6Ig3cBTRtDxKDX/W7ZU0OLD35bBIB0+Wj
kzj3HMqHNfWzx+hiLWtQNW7U61XZry8CP4WdWNyPGWnz0uHcHnJZ2di1TMJxgq2e
HD//w6Y5mwWFslA6vAVvvNtZyWFYkJ7G+yoNRSnyMZxjWOcwb8rg3HsfCYW4nLDG
ET5/zRcVVsekhGmwd5jsGBxRMzPqCwDR3YlDAnzzf15JbpaqDiQ7b1XcQacdLB2b
WBGnxIYF09PI/Ef6thsQINuCiJHPb7NxDvV0JuWmGN6Va0QhdH+lwHIMNU1XMQdW
hvlk539Y4ee+MGtNqnSt5RGOS0HdpkZvA4zNaMzxMTFZOIWz5YTRT9xWLRQtuCON
Bdxn9+qPUxyPtw2qp6rfAtFHKdzZLMMpLvJ3i9J8A/0+z3KOlNikIZ1+UDLI7Ta1
3BrAvFHuPMiFKbDmP9wZ+5RPTdlmcaW68m/PQjr9E0fw/OyTMFY5OydzoSPdTmEf
9luseUa8cCLvGFs9i/StY+NqglnvYttmwczj8dW0JTNGrOYglNfDtNVt4yHj9S8Q
VCTM26bCblkPnq7xQncvVFUUVTKiSnIuDemgNp9XpJWmEDLPz3ePwAQdj+LWMa7S
4AHkTqKTa//UOUj8VkFMPTifJOEYZeAa4O7hZZvgFuIELlNc4F/iMs5oE+Al4VsS
4O3kC9J0syzdPvKib7fSN1wgEOJksiiX4WMtAA==
=Isrr
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

gpg2 --decrypt testmessage.txt
"Entering passphrase..."

gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 8BD85012F86CA2, created 2020-02-02
      "Vladimir Samoylov (cageyv) <[email protected]>"
foobar% 

gpg --decrypt testmessage.txt
"Entering passphrase..."

gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 8BD85012F86CA2, created 2020-02-02
      "Vladimir Samoylov (cageyv) <[email protected]>"
foobar% 

keybase pgp decrypt -i testmessage.txt

ERROR decrypt error: unable to find a PGP decryption key for this message

cageyv avatar Jul 28 '20 19:07 cageyv

Any help on this. I am facing a similar issue

sankarpa avatar Nov 19 '20 12:11 sankarpa

Same here

NamelessHH avatar Mar 19 '21 19:03 NamelessHH

A year passes - Did anyone sort this out? I have this issue as well.

deybhayden avatar Mar 21 '22 21:03 deybhayden

This comment worked for me (as long as you are comfortable storing your private key in keybase): https://github.com/keybase/client/pull/17307#issuecomment-558860752

deybhayden avatar Mar 21 '22 21:03 deybhayden

@deybhayden I moved to another system now and can't help to reproduce this anymore :(

cageyv avatar Mar 22 '22 17:03 cageyv

This comment worked for me (as long as you are comfortable storing your private key in keybase): #17307 (comment)

Doesnt work for me. It prompts to enter passphrase to export the OpenPGP secret key: ..... I tried all passphrases that I have but no luck. Why this is so difficult?

Can we reset all of this? If someone forget their password, how to recover from this in keybase?

laurentiuspurba avatar Feb 01 '24 21:02 laurentiuspurba