Thank you all your response. I will try with "gpgsplit". But I do have secret key in my seckeyring
C:/Documents and Settings/xxxxx/Application Data/gnupg\secring.gpg --------------------------------------------------------------------- sec 1024R/FBCFC5F9 2008-10-06 uid vijay But I am not sure why GPG can not see it during decryption. Besides the key that I got was generated using PGP CL. Thanks guru David Shaw wrote: > > On Oct 15, 2008, at 4:54 PM, Guru_i wrote: > >> >> Hi Im using GPG CL 1.4.9. >> case is - >> 1)somebody (trusted) is generating key pair on my behalf(as proxy). >> But he >> is sending me only my secret key and NOT public key. >> 2) I was able to import the secret key in gpg keyring using >> --allow-secret-key-import command >> 3) But when I try to decrypt the file (which was encrypted using my >> public >> key its not with me though) I get error message such as >> >> gpg: decryption failed: secret key not available. Though I know I have >> secret key with me. > > There is a lot that doesn't follow here. The --allow-secret-key- > import command is a no-op in version 1.4.9, so if you had to use it to > import your key, then you're not using 1.4.9. > > Also, if you were using 1.4.9, when you imported your secret key, it > would automatically create a public key for you. This is built in, > and is on by default. > > Finally, that error message means that your secret key was not, in > fact, imported. It says nothing about your public key. > > Given all of that, I suspect you didn't import your secret key after > all. > > To import a secret key, do: > gpg --import (the secret key file) > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Decrypting-with-private-key-and-public-key-is-missing-tp19995558p20013451.html Sent from the GnuPG - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
