----- On Jul 24, 2019, at 5:58 PM, john doe johndoe65...@mail.com wrote:
>> > > Quoting your original e-mail: > > "i'm new to GPG, so please excuse asking silly questions. > I managed to create my keys with "gpg2 --gen-key" > I wrote an e-Mail to ad...@gnupp.de with the subject "Mein öffentlicher > Schlüssel", which is german for "my public key". > Shortly thereafter i got an encrypted response which, i assume, i have to > decrypt with my private key. > I pasted the encrypted stuff into a file and then tried to decrypt: > > gpg2 -d nachricht.txt > > I've been asked for the passphrase for my private key which i entered, > but then > i got the following error: > > gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit RSA key, ID F742DB29, created 2019-07-23 > "Bernd Lentes (Helmholtz GPG Schluessel) > <bernd.len...@helmholtz-muenchen.de>" > gpg: Fatal: zlib inflate problem: invalid code lengths set > > The file has a size of 68 KB, could that be the culprit ?" > > Now addressing what I think is the culprit: > You encrypt your e-mail with the public key of the recipient. > When you are the recipient of an encrypted e-mail, the sender needs your > publick key to be able to encrypt the e-mail that will be send to you. > You, the recipient, will use your private key to decrypt this e-mail. > That's exactly what i did. I sent my Public key to ad...@gnupp.de, which is a german project for GPG, and the server and adele are for practicing. Adele took my public key and sent me an e-Mail with some text and her public key, so i should be able to decrypt that with my private key. I don't have a plugin for my e-Mail-program because i just use the webinterface of the e-Mail-Server. Bernd Helmholtz Zentrum Muenchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum fuer Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH) Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1 85764 Neuherberg www.helmholtz-muenchen.de Aufsichtsratsvorsitzende: MinDir'in Prof. Dr. Veronika von Messling Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias Tschoep, Heinrich Bassler, Kerstin Guenther Registergericht: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 6466 USt-IdNr: DE 129521671 _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users