On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 06:53:48PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Sorry but indeed I have the secret key for 0x2E604D51 and it's valid (I just > installed my gpg keyrings on a new computer and use it for signing). > The 0CC897B5 is a subkey and was created automatically with 0x2E604D5 > creation > and never ask specific password.
No, you should have a subkey for both 0x2E604D51 /and/ 0x0CC897B5. Here are the details of my keys: bris0085(23)% gpg --list-keys --verbose /home/damia/users/dsmith/.gnupg/pubring.gpg ------------------------------------------- pub 1024D/F13192F2 2002-02-12 uid David Smith (STMicroelectronics) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid David Smith (Home) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/FA5EA4A2 2002-02-12 [expired: 2002-08-11] sub 1024g/BE299CC1 2002-07-20 [expired: 2003-01-16] sub 1024g/C8D6DAB9 2003-01-18 [expired: 2003-07-17] sub 1024g/B643FF36 2003-11-09 [expired: 2004-05-07] sub 1024g/80454033 2004-05-17 [expired: 2004-11-13] sub 1024g/F5FE6DF8 2004-12-07 [expired: 2005-06-05] sub 1024g/0DD8A13F 2005-09-05 [expired: 2006-03-04] sub 1024g/9249F278 2006-06-20 [expired: 2006-12-17] sub 1024g/3712DE29 2006-12-22 [expired: 2006-12-24] sub 4096g/42F250C4 2007-01-13 [expires: 2007-07-12] bris0085(22)% gpg --list-secret-keys /home/damia/users/dsmith/.gnupg/secring.gpg ------------------------------------------- sec 1024D/F13192F2 2002-02-12 uid David Smith (Home) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid David Smith (STMicroelectronics) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ssb 1024g/FA5EA4A2 2002-02-12 ssb 1024g/BE299CC1 2002-07-20 ssb 1024g/C8D6DAB9 2003-01-18 ssb 1024g/B643FF36 2003-11-09 ssb 1024g/80454033 2004-05-17 ssb 1024g/F5FE6DF8 2004-12-07 ssb 1024g/0DD8A13F 2005-09-05 ssb 1024g/9249F278 2006-06-20 Note that my main (signing) key has both public (pub) and secret (sec) parts, and each of my subkeys have public (sub) and secret (ssb) parts. Compare this with yours: % gpg --list-secret-keys -v 0x2E604D51 gpg: no secret subkey for public subkey 0CC897B5 - ignoring sec 1024D/2E604D51 2006-06-11 uid Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid [ revoked] pubmb01 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid [ revoked] Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid [ revoked] pubmb02 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uid Bruno Costacurta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You seem to have managed to lose the secret part of your subkey, either through a bug or data corruption, or through human error. Unless you can find the secret part of your subkey again, the public part is worthless, and should be revoked by publishing a revocation certificate. This does, of course, assume that you generated a revocation certificate before you lost the secret part.... -- David Smith | Tel: +44 (0)1454 462380 Home: +44 (0)1454 616963 STMicroelectronics | Fax: +44 (0)1454 462305 Mobile: +44 (0)7932 642724 1000 Aztec West | TINA: 065 2380 GPG Key: 0xF13192F2 Almondsbury | Work Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] BRISTOL, BS32 4SQ | Home Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users