Create another subkey with the "Encryption" usage.
This page may help: https://alexcabal.com/creating-the-perfect-gpg-keypair
Don't skip the part about creating backups. You might have a good reason to
skip this part, and many people have a lot of good reasons to skip creating a
backup, but
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:52, Ayoub Misherghi said:
> ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg -r sentry -e textfile
>
> gpg: sentry: skipped: Unusable public key
> gpg: textfile: encryption failed: Unusable public key
There is no key with a user id "sentry" which has a key capable o
If it is not in my machine I do not know where it is. I did not export
it. I did not share it or put on any server.
On 7/27/2020 4:51 PM, Philihp Busby wrote:
It appears that 3C5B212A55B966881E2D2718A45398B520BEE91E does not have the [E]
usage for encryption, nor does it have any subkeys
~/testdir$ gpg -r sentry -e textfile
>
> gpg: sentry: skipped: Unusable public key
> gpg: textfile: encryption failed: Unusable public key
>
>
>
> ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg --list-keys
>
> /home/ayoub/.gnupg/pubring.kbx
> -
Not obvious to me why that is happening:
ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ ls
textfile
ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg -r sentry -e textfile
gpg: sentry: skipped: Unusable public key
gpg: textfile: encryption failed: Unusable public key
ayoub@vboxpwfl:~/testdir$ gpg --list-keys
/home/ayoub
Am Mittwoch 10 Januar 2018 14:51:24 schrieb Rajireddy Saddi (OSV):
> I used below command for encryption but I am getting below error
> skipped: Unusable public key error
Try the same command with more verbosity, e.g. by adding
the following options, try to get more verbose if you do n
Hi,
I am using GPG 2.2.3
I have imported key successfully and did edit and trust
I used below command for encryption but I am getting below error
skipped: Unusable public key error
gpg --pinentry-mode loopback --sign --encrypt --armor -u x -o
E:\New\test.txt.gpg -r x --passphrase
