Hello all,
Perhaps somebody out there could be of some help. I use since 10 years now
GnuPG in my Shell to encrypt my Passwords. I only open this file, from time to
time to look up some pws which I need for banking, crypto or to check, which of
my many mails I used on which webpage.
After use I remove the pw.txt file immediately with my shell. All what is left
is the file pw.txt.gpg.
Now after such a long time, something strange happened: this file is apparently
encrypted with a foreign private key, which I never have had:
gpg: WARNING: no command supplied. Trying to guess what you mean ...
gpg: encrypted with 2048-bit ELG key, ID 1F1EF0849B5C6D50, created 2019-06-30
"PAUSE Batch Signing Key 2021 <pa...@pause.perl.org>"
gpg: decryption failed: No secret key
I would be *VERY* grateful for any help in:
1. Recover the original file pw.tx. This file I remove in my shell and for me,
it seems impossible to recover this file. Right? And I am sure: I have even a
SSD on my 2018 MB Pro. Which makes it even much more improbable, to recover the
decrypted pw-file.
2. If the file is mistakenly encrypted with wrong headers from perl.org
<http://perl.org/>, perhaps it would be possible to change the headers to my
private gpg key? I see in the pw.txt.gpg file <85> … <8c> … <91> which could be
headers. If I replace some of them with a backup - two month old from a still
working bu_pw.txt.pgg file?
3. As a last resort: is the private key of pa...@pause.perl.org
<mailto:pa...@pause.perl.org> still in use? Would it possible to … ok ok
private key … ok ok not possible … I understand.
Some ideas? Thank you for your insight
Marek Stepanek_______________________________________________
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