Hi list, I'm answering (quite late, sorry) to myself after having a telephone session with olav, many thanx again.
Here is what we found: > I have been using enigmail on a windows 7 machine with thunderbird for > half a year now. > > I have two key-pairs, one of length 2048 and one of length 4096. > > About two weeks ago I got error messages telling me that my key (the > longer one) had missing trust, out of nowhere, I did not change anything. > > Then I made updates and klicked everything to >>ultimate<< (though I > didn't have to do that before, it just worked before). > > Now the larger key has status >>validity: revoked<<, but I never revoked > that key by myself. > > This morning, when I opened an encrypted mail sent to me by someone, I > got another enigmail-error-message: > > <\beginquote> > > Decrypted message > > Error - no matching secret key found to decrypt message > > Note: The message is encrypted for the following user ID's / Keys> > > ... (Doris Behrendt) ..., > > ... (the name of the sender of the mail) ... > > <\stopquote> > > Yesterday I openend this message without any error message. After > restarting, the error message doesn't reemerge, it seems. > > So here are my questions: > > 1. Why do I have two keys? (perhaps I don't remember generating 2 keys, > perhaps it is the default to get 2?) this must have happened during installation, I don't remember, but the creation date of the keys is the day of installation; > > 2. Why is my key revoked without me actively revoking it? It seems that > I cannot re-revoke it? why the key was revoked, we could not find out; the date of the revocation however was shown as the day of creation, using on the command line in the directory C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\gnupg and typing gpg --expert --edit-key 0x(last8hexdigitsofkeyid) this obviously makes no sense, since I have used the key for some months without error messages; I was able to re-revoke (or un-revoke) it using gpgsplit as described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GnuPrivacyGuardHowto#Un-revoking_a_keypair > > 3. What mechanism is telling enigmail, which key to take, if there are > more than one? in the above mentioned directory, there is a config file named gpa.conf, there in my case was an entry for the default key > > 4. What could be the reason for the error message telling me >>no > matching secret key found<<? no idea ... the reason for the problems I had COULD have been that I had two different guis installed, cleopatra AND gnu privacy guard, and I did not understand that I did not need both of them at the same time ;-) Many thanks to olav again for helping me! Doris _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
