If you have deleted your old secret key, then you'll need to restore it from backups. GPG is reasonably secure; there is no way to decrypt your passwords without the secret key(s) for which they were encrypted.
Cheers, Steve Gilberd Erayd LTD · Consultant Phone: +64 4 974-4229 · Mob: +64 27 565-3237 PO Box 10019 The Terrace, Wellington 6143, NZ On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, 22:24 Csanyi Pal, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I messed up my GPG secret key and password-store system here. > > I do not understand how GPG works. > > I removed with Seahorse my old secret key so now pass show command does > not shows any passwords out there. > > Eg: > pass show AvilagHalon/Telefonjaim/Telenor > > gives this message. > gpg: decryption failed: No secret key > > How did I get into this trouble? > > I am going to change my Desktop Environment from Xfce4 to LXQt. > > So when I am logged in at LXQt then I couldn't use passwords with pass, > or QtPass. I do not remember why not. > > Probably I removed with Seahorse the old GPG secret key so I can't > decrypt my passwords stored in password-store. > > At the same time I created a new key pair with gpg and tried to use with > it the password-store but without success. > > What can I do now to get my passwords back? > > -- > Best, Paul Chany > _______________________________________________ > Password-Store mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.zx2c4.com/mailman/listinfo/password-store >
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