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OpenPGP encryption failed

#938

I've set up a new GPG key using GPGTools.

I can sign an email no problem, but if I try to encrypt an email, I get this error message:

OpenPGP encryption failed INV_RECP 0 web@growdigital.org

Any ideas? tia, Jake

Reported by Jake Rayson · October 24th, 2014 @ 10:44 AM

State: new
Milestone: none
Assigned to: benny benny

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  1. benny
    benny

    Are you sure you have the public key for web@growdigital.org?

    The 0 error code itself is not very helpful (a bit typical for gpg)

    -  0 :: No specific reason given

    October 24th, 2014 @ 11:22 AM

  2. Jake Rayson
    Jake Rayson

    Ahh, my mistake. I haven't used GPG for many many years, I forgot that the encryption is using their public key.

    Thought it was encrypted using my private key, then decrypted using my publicly available public key (if that makes sense).

    thanks for your help, Jake

    October 24th, 2014 @ 11:29 AM

  3. benny
    benny
    • State changed from new to resolved

    It makes sense if using encryption to ensure that the message has not been changed, but that is the purpose of signing. The message is, by the way, also encrypted using your public key since otherwise you could not decrypt the message yourself.

    October 24th, 2014 @ 11:32 AM

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