Thanks for the response, the command >gpg --recepient testuserID --encrypt abc.txt
I used has double dashes still I gives the same error. I think I am using the default keyring as I didn't change its location Thanks, Nag -----Original Message----- From: gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org [mailto:gnupg-users-boun...@gnupg.org] On Behalf Of Grant Olson Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:24 PM To: gnupg-users@gnupg.org Subject: Re: gpg encryption failed no public key On 3/11/2010 7:52 AM, nagaram.c wrote: > Hi, > > > > I am new to gpg command line utility for file encryption/decryption. I > have installed gpg4win v 2.0.2 & trying to encrypt a file with a key > that I imported which is also listing while typing list-keys command > > > > The issue is that I am getting encryption failed no public key while > typing in the below command > >>gpg -recipient testUserID -encrypt abc.txt > > > > In one of the posts I found that this is due to not specifying keyring > location with using -keyring option > > > > But while I used below command with specifying keyring as below > > > >>gpg -recipient testIUserID -keyring C:/Documents & > Settings/username/Application Data/gnupg/pubring.gpg -encrypt abc.txt > > > > I am getting below error > > > > gpg: keyblock resource 'C:/Documents & Settings/username/Application > Data/gnupg/C:/Documents' no such file or directory > > usage: gpg [options] [filename] > > The first command isn't working because you need to double-dash the options. "--recipient" and "--encrypt". You really shouldn't need the -keyring option if you're using your default keyring. But for the option to work, you would need quotes around the filename since it has spaces in it. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
