On 7/24/2019 6:38 PM, Lentes, Bernd wrote: > > > ----- On Jul 24, 2019, at 5:58 PM, john doe [email protected] wrote: > > > >>> >> >> Quoting your original e-mail: >> >> "i'm new to GPG, so please excuse asking silly questions. >> I managed to create my keys with "gpg2 --gen-key" >> I wrote an e-Mail to [email protected] with the subject "Mein öffentlicher >> Schlüssel", which is german for "my public key". >> Shortly thereafter i got an encrypted response which, i assume, i have to >> decrypt with my private key. >> I pasted the encrypted stuff into a file and then tried to decrypt: >> >> gpg2 -d nachricht.txt >> >> I've been asked for the passphrase for my private key which i entered, >> but then >> i got the following error: >> >> gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID F742DB29, created 2019-07-23 >> "Bernd Lentes (Helmholtz GPG Schluessel) >> <[email protected]>" >> gpg: Fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid code lengths set >> >> The file has a size of 68 KB, could that be the culprit ?" >> >> Now addressing what I think is the culprit: >> You encrypt your e-mail with the public key of the recipient. >> When you are the recipient of an encrypted e-mail, the sender needs your >> publick key to be able to encrypt the e-mail that will be send to you. >> You, the recipient, will use your private key to decrypt this e-mail. >> > > That's exactly what i did. > I sent my Public key to [email protected], which is a german project for GPG, > and the server and adele are for practicing. > Adele took my public key and sent me an e-Mail with some text and her public > key, > so i should be able to decrypt that with my private key. > > I don't have a plugin for my e-Mail-program because i just use the > webinterface of the e-Mail-Server. > >
In addition to "Andrew Gallagher <[email protected]>"'s answer: Can't you use IMAP/POP3 to access your e-mail and SMTP to send your e-mail (1, my German is not that great)? 1) https://docplayer.org/2073295-Neue-e-mail-einstellungen-fuer-pop3-und-imap-benutzer.html -- John Doe _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
