On Wednesday 06 June 2007 18:01, David SMITH wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 05:14:18PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > gpg --list-secret-keys -v 0x2E604D51 > > gpg: using PGP trust model > > gpg: no secret subkey for public subkey 0CC897B5 - ignoring > > sec 1024D/2E604D51 2006-06-11 > > uid Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > uid Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > uid [ revoked] pubmb01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > uid [ revoked] Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > uid [ revoked] pubmb02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > uid Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > So I simply do not have a secret for my subkey. > > How can I add one ? > > You can't "add" a secret key to a public one - otherwise, there wouldn't > be much point to public key cryptography... > > You will have generated a secret key when you generated the public key - > they're generated together. Somehow you've managed to lose the secret > key. You need to look around in the places where you generated/stored > the key to see if you can find it. If you can't find it, then I'm > afraid that you're stuffed - you won't be able to decrypt your encrypted > information (short of brute-force cracking it). > > Sorry for being the bearer of bad news...
Sorry but indeed I have the secret key for 0x2E604D51 and it's valid (I just installed my gpg keyrings on a new computer and use it for signing). The 0CC897B5 is a subkey and was created automatically with 0x2E604D5 creation and never ask specific password. Bye, Bruno -- PGP key ID: 0x2e604d51 Key : http://www.costacurta.org/keys/bruno_costacurta_pgp_key.html Key fingerprint = 713F 7956 9441 7DEF 58ED 1951 7E07 569B 2E60 4D51 --
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