On 04/17/2017 02:21 PM, John Washington wrote: > I have two keys (which is my own fault). I am trying to use both > mailvelope and Thunderbird, but am having issues with both. I'm getting > an error in Mailvelope that says: "Error! No private key found for this > message. Required private key IDs: 123917833D3467DE or E74FDBBA2F0DF810" > and yet I can encrypt and send messages no problem. And I'm getting an > error in Thunderbird that says " Part of the message encrypted Error - > no matching private/secret key found to decrypt message gpg: decryption > failed: No secret key". > Any and all help is greatly appreciated. I'm a freelance journalist > needing to get this right for sources. > > Thanks. > /john
I noticed in the header that you are using MAC OSX which is built on top of BSD UNIX. First of all I would open a terminal and type the following commands: gpg --list-secret-keys This will give you a listing of the secret keys that GnuPG has stored in /home/username/.gnupg/ I am not familiar with Mailvelope but I assume that it is a front end for gmail. Several years ago I tried to get the Gmail encryption programs to cooperate with GnuPG all to no avail. (But that was most likely over 5 years ago) The gmail encryption frontends do not use GnuPG and generate their own keys and store the keys in their own directory. Mailvelope should have a way to export both the public and secret keys just like GnuPG has. To export a public key in GnuPG type: gpg -a --export publickeyid > some-name.asc The -a option makes the output as ascii text The > redirects the output to the specified file rather than stdout or the screen. To export a secret key in gpg type: gpg -a --export-secret-key keyID > some-name-secret.asc My experience with gmail encryption frontends was that they did not allow the import of keys from files and insisted on blocking and pasting to import a key. You can either use cat or less to display your key files. The cat command sends the entire file to the screen and sometimes the file is longer than the 1000 lines that are normally stored in memory thus using less will enable you to page through the file. I hope this long winded reply helps :-) -- Rev. LeRoy D. Cressy mailto:le...@lrcressy.com /\_/\ mailto:rev.cre...@gmail.com ( o.o ) > ^ < Cell Phone: 267-668-9686 Please See My posts on facebook or googleplus Open PGP Key: C34B77CC gpg fingerprint: 8AD5 35EF 1FDF F1A7 E483 8CCE A50D 4E81 C34B 77CC For info on enigmail: https://www.enigmail.net/ For info on gpg: https://gnupg.org/ For secure Cell Phone: https://whispersystems.org/ Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6) _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list enigmail-users@enigmail.net To unsubscribe or make changes to your subscription click here: https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
