Got it, I will try that next. Thanks.

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Hauke Laging <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Am Mi 25.07.2012, 12:48:57 schrieb Chris Clifton:
> > Forgive me, can you elaborate on 'encrypting the file to the other one
> and
> > your own key' ?
>
> You can give several recipients. The data is encrypted symmetrically (by
> AES
> e.g.) by a random key. This random key is asymmetrically encrypted to all
> recipients (or even to a passphrase). Thus an additional recipient
> increases
> the size of the resulting file slightly only.
>
> gpg --recipient 0x12345678 --recipient 0x87654321 --encrypt ./my/file
>
> See --encrypt-to.
>
> This way you can check whether you can decrypt the data yourself at least.
>
> Furthermore it would have been a lot more useful to get the full error
> message
> of your recipient instead of a simple "cannot".
>
>
> Hauke
> --
> PGP: D44C 6A5B 71B0 427C CED3 025C BD7D 6D27 ECCB 5814
>
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