have been trying to decrypt a message using the session key,
but can't get it to work, (am using gnupg 1.4.2 at the command
line)
started by encrypting a file to a test key
(and also to my default key),
saving the file as c:\r\s.txt
and decrypting with the option of --show-session-key
here is part of the gpg output after decryption:
gpg: public key is F0E74948
gpg: using subkey F0E74948 instead of primary key 7B534E2D
gpg: public key encrypted data: good DEK
gpg: public key is 04ADEE20
gpg: using subkey 04ADEE20 instead of primary key 6A589A97
gpg: encrypted with 4096-bit RSA key, ID 04ADEE20, created
4/26/2001
"vedaal nistar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
gpg: encrypted with 1024-bit ELG-E key, ID F0E74948, created
1/15/2002
"boo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
gpg: 3DES encrypted data
gpg: decryption okay
gpg: session key:
`2:1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE'
here is what i tried to do to decrypt with the session key:
first, this one:
C:\>gpg --override-session-key
string1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE c:\r\s.txt
and got this gpg output error message:
gpg: public key decryption failed: bad key
gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available
then i tried each of the following, but got the same error message
as above
gpg --override-session-key
string2:1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE c:\r\s.txt
gpg --override-session-key
string`1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE' c:\r\s.txt
gpg --override-session-key
string`2:1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE'
c:\r\s.txt
then i tried it with a space between the word string and the
session key string, like this: (there was no line wrapping in the
command line)
gpg --override-session-key string
`2:1568A79A26ABCB75C294AA07AB73C53A7D168F2B898F93BE' c:\r\s.txt
and got the following gpg error message:
usage: gpg [options] [filename]
and got the same syntax error mesage for each of the variants of
the session key string, both with and without the 2 and : in front,
and both with and without the ' before and after the string
what is the correct syntax to get this to work?
TIA,
vedaal
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