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Open andrikos opened this issue 10 years ago • 6 comments

Hi,

I have this incoming message, but when I press the decrypt button (either having provided a password or not), nothing happens. This is the HTML code of the message:

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Version: GnuPG v1

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andrikos avatar Jul 17 '14 17:07 andrikos

Hi

Opening this in a different GPG client says the message has been symmetrically encrypted rather than public key encrypted.. Don think gmail-crypt or mailvelope can handle this. Command line GnuPG, GPGtools or K9 with APG are your best bet provided the symmetric encryption password has been shared with you.

dbgdngit avatar Jul 18 '14 06:07 dbgdngit

I'm quite sure that this message is signed using my public key and not a symmetric key When I use "gpg --decrypt" on it I get:

You need a passphrase to unlock the secret key for user: "Nick Andrik [email protected]" 2048-bit RSA key, ID 8F150745, created 2012-10-08 (main key ID 9635AF44)

Can you please check it again?

andrikos avatar Jul 18 '14 10:07 andrikos

I stand corrected. The symmetric message was what i got in K9 mail client with APG integrated With gpg command line i get the same as you gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 99FE1197 gpg: encrypted with RSA key, ID 8F150745 gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available

dbgdngit avatar Jul 18 '14 10:07 dbgdngit

So, shouldn't I get a message when trying to decrypt the email?

andrikos avatar Jul 18 '14 10:07 andrikos

Hi, I have the same problem. I can't decrypt incoming messages although I can send encrypted messages.

I enter my passphrase and nothing happens for this message, for example.

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CynthiaBeauty avatar May 26 '15 11:05 CynthiaBeauty

@CynthiaBeauty, it is possible that the key you are sending from is not the same key that people are encrypting and sending text to. Did you import an existing key or create a new one with the extension? If you created a new one, they might be trying to send to an older key.

Did you ever create an older key that you haven't imported into the extension?

seancolyer avatar May 30 '15 21:05 seancolyer