Did you encrypt to yourself as well as to the pause key for some reason? Are you a pause admin? It sounds like you encrypted to both yourself and pa...@pause.perl.org for some reason. If that's the case and you cannot find your private key, you could maybe ask a pause admin to decrypt and re-encrypt to a key that you own, sending you back the encrypted file. But you'd need to trust the pause admin with your passwords. I probably know one that I would trust with this task, but it would put a bit of liability risk on them as well...
On Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 15:00 Marek Stepanek <ms...@podiuminternational.org> wrote: > 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, > 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 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 > _______________________________________________ > Gnupg-users mailing list > Gnupg-users@gnupg.org > http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
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