Im having trouble with GPG.
I downloaded a public key saved it with gedit and imported it.
Now i have the public key but not a secret key.
How can i import also the secret key?
1 Answer
Why should you give someone his private key? Either you have the private key or not.
- To decrypt your own private message, you need your public key.
- To decrypt your public message, you need your private key.
- To decrypt a message of your friend, you need the public key of your friend.
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Im trying to decrypt a message. I have the secret key, but i i think im using a wrong command.– TubuntuJun 5, 2015 at 13:32
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I have the public key of my friend, i imported the public key. When i run gpg --list-keys, it says that i have the public key, his name is listed with a public key and a sub key. Now when i try to decrypt a message, it says that i dont have the secret key, but it does show what kind of secret key i must have?– TubuntuJun 5, 2015 at 13:41