I figured out the issue.... Need to sign the key after it is imported.
Nag -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Florian Schwind Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 2:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gpg encryption failed no public key Hi, On 12.03.2010 07:11, nagaram.c wrote: > Thanks for the response, the command > >> gpg --recepient testuserID --encrypt abc.txt > > I used has double dashes still I gives the same error. > > I think I am using the default keyring as I didn't change its location try using the "--homedir <path_to_your_keyring>" option > Thanks, > Nag Greetings Florian > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Grant Olson > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 12:24 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: gpg encryption failed no public key > > On 3/11/2010 7:52 AM, nagaram.c wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am new to gpg command line utility for file encryption/decryption. I >> have installed gpg4win v 2.0.2& trying to encrypt a file with a key >> that I imported which is also listing while typing list-keys command >> >> >> >> The issue is that I am getting encryption failed no public key while >> typing in the below command >> >>> gpg -recipient testUserID -encrypt abc.txt >> >> >> >> In one of the posts I found that this is due to not specifying keyring >> location with using -keyring option >> >> >> >> But while I used below command with specifying keyring as below >> >> >> >>> gpg -recipient testIUserID -keyring C:/Documents& >> Settings/username/Application Data/gnupg/pubring.gpg -encrypt abc.txt >> >> >> >> I am getting below error >> >> >> >> gpg: keyblock resource 'C:/Documents& Settings/username/Application >> Data/gnupg/C:/Documents' no such file or directory >> >> usage: gpg [options] [filename] >> >> > > The first command isn't working because you need to double-dash the > options. "--recipient" and "--encrypt". > > You really shouldn't need the -keyring option if you're using your > default keyring. But for the option to work, you would need quotes > around the filename since it has spaces in it. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
