Hello Vedaal - Thanks for your reply.
I executed the steps you listed (see below) and they completed without any errors. However I am not yet successful at getting my GPG implementation to work. Working in Claws-mail I try to send a encrypted test message to the address with the available public key (the one I exported and imported as you mentioned). I would expected the key just mentioned should appear as one I could select in Claws pop-up box but it doesn't and I have to search for it with the "Other" selection, and then it's found and I select it. Next I get a message that the Key is "not fully trusted" and do I want to use it anyway? I do. I get another message saying the "signature failed. Unusable secret Key." When I look in the lLnux app called Seahorse I do see the key. When I look within the Trust tab I see that the Trust box is selected but when I try to sign it this fails, saying "no usable keys" I'm confused on my next trouble-shooting steps. Any advice is appreciated. TIA, rsv869 On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:18:32 -0500 [email protected] wrote: > > > On 1/17/2017 at 4:14 PM, "Reid Vail" wrote:I can run GnuPG at the > command line and can create a new key pair, and the output > from the --fingerprint option is shown directly below, but encrypting > through Claws > fails with a error that simply says "encryption failed". > > Next I tried to get a basic signature to work, and that fails also, > shown next. > rsv2@rsv2-Serval-Pro ~ $ gpg --clearsign --local-user --default-key > encryption test > gpg: skipped "--default-key": secret key not available > gpg: encryption test: clearsign failed: secret key not available > > ===== > > You have imported only your public key not your secret key > > Export your public and secret key as an .asc file, (lets say RV.asc) > > Then do gpg --import RV.asc > > Your secret key will be added to your keyring. > _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
